Mailers pay postage due, including discounts for Full-Service, presort, and destination/zone entry, at the time of mailing. Using eDoc and operational scan data, the Postal Service performs Streamlined Mail Entry verifications to verify both payment at time of entry and compliance with requirements for discounted postage rates. The Postal Service logs verification errors on pieces and containers (pallets), and errors are eligible for postage assessment when an eDoc submitter’s pieces/containers with a verification error exceed the error threshold for that specific verification. The Postal Service aggregates the total postage due by eDoc submitter CRID and issues a postage assessment to the eDoc submitter.
The Postal Service manages error reporting and postage assessments via online reporting. Error data and estimated assessment amounts are displayed for eDoc submitters, mail preparers, and mail owners on the Mailer Scorecard. eDoc submitters view and pay postage assessments via the Mail Entry Assessment reports. These reports are described in the Guide to Streamlined Mail Acceptance for Letters and Flats Reporting, found here: https://postalpro.usps.gov/MailAcceptanceReportingGuide.
