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Librarian of Congress.
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International Surface Air Lift® (ISAL®)
mailing, or any other mailing paid with
an advance deposit account presented to
the USPS for weighing and acceptance.
The Postal Service hereby adopts the
following changes to Mailing Standards
of the United States Postal Service,
International Mail Manual (IMM),
which is incorporated by reference in
the Code of Federal Regulations. See 39
CFR 20.1.
List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 20
POSTAL SERVICE
Foreign relations, International postal
services.
39 CFR Part 20
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Return Address Requirement
—Outbound International Commercial
Bulk Mailings
Postal ServiceTM.
Final rule with comment period.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Postal Service is revising
the Mailing Standards of the United
States Postal Service, International Mail
Manual (IMM®) to require that
mailpieces prepared as a commercial
bulk mailing must bear a complete U.S.
return address.
DATES: Effective date: January 4, 2010.
Comment date: Mail or deliver
written comments until December 4,
2009.
ADDRESSES: Mail or deliver written
comments to the Manager, Mailing
Standards, U.S. Postal Service, 475
L’Enfant Plaza, SW., Room 3436,
Washington, DC 20260–3436. You may
inspect and photocopy all written
comments at USPS Headquarters
Library, 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW., 11th
Floor N., Washington, DC between 9
a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday. E-mail comments, containing
the name and address of the commenter,
may be sent to
MailingStandards@usps.gov with a
subject line of ‘‘Return Address
Requirement—Outbound International
Commercial Bulk Mailings.’’ Faxed
comments will not be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick
Klutts at 813–877–0372.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Postal
Service is making this change to be
consistent with the amended regulations
of the Universal Postal Union (UPU)
Proposal 25.123.2 that revises Article RL
123, Paragraph 10 of the UPU Letter
Post Regulations. This revision will
codify that mailpieces prepared as a
commercial bulk mailing must bear a
complete return address in the country
of origin of the mail. For this purpose,
a ‘‘bulk mailing’’ is any International
Priority AirmailTM (IPA®) or
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Accordingly, 39 CFR part 20 is
amended as follows:
PART 20—[AMENDED]
1. The authority citation for 39 CFR
part 20 continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 39 U.S.C. 401,
404, 407, 408, 3622, 3632, and 3633.
2. Revise the following sections of
Mailing Standards of the United States
Postal Service, International Mail
Manual (IMM), as follows:
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Mailing Standards of the United States
Postal Service, International Mail
Manual (IMM)
1
International Mail Services
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120
Preparation for Mailing
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122
Addressing
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122.2
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Return Address
[Revise 122.2 as follows:]
Due to heightened security, many
foreign postal administrations require
complete sender and addressee
information in roman letters and arabic
numerals on postal items. The complete
address of the sender, including ZIP
Code and country of origin, should be
shown in the upper left corner of the
address side of the envelope, card, flat,
or package. Only one return address
may be used, and it must be located so
that it does not affect either the clarity
of the address of destination or the
application of service labels and
notations (postmarks, etc.). Unregistered
items bearing a return address in
another country are accepted only at the
sender’s risk. In the case of bulk
mailings, all mailpieces must bear a
complete U.S. return address. For the
purpose of this section, a ‘‘bulk
mailing’’ is any IPA or ISAL mailing, or
any other mailing paid with an advance
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deposit account presented to the USPS
for weighing and acceptance.
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Conditions for Mailing
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290
Commercial Services
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292 International Priority Airmail
(IPA) Service
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292.4 Mail Preparation
[Revise the title and introductory
sentence in 292.41 as follows:]
292.41 Addressing and Return
Address
IPA mailpieces are subject to the
addressing requirements contained in
122, including the requirement of a
complete U.S. return address.
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293 International Surface Air Lift
(ISAL) Service
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293.4 Mail Preparation
[Revise the title and introductory
sentence in 293.41 as follows:]
293.41 Addressing and Return
Address
ISAL mailpieces are subject to the
addressing requirements contained in
122, including the requirement of a
complete U.S. return address.
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We will publish an appropriate
amendment to 39 CFR part 111 to reflect
these changes.
Stanley F. Mires,
Chief Counsel.
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39 CFR Part 111
New Move Update Assessment
Procedures for January 2010 for
Automation and Presort First-Class
Mail and All Standard Mail Items
Postal Service TM.
ACTION: Final rule.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Postal Service is filing
with the Postal Regulatory Commission
a notice of revisions to policies and
procedures for determining postage
adjustments for mailings of First-Class
Mail® and Standard Mail® pieces that
are determined to contain a large
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number of address inaccuracies.
Consistent with the Commission filing,
this notice and final rule provides
revised mailing standards and
procedures for administering the Move
Update standards.
DATES: Effective January 4, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill
Chatfield, 202–268–7278.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Postal
Service previously published a final
rule regarding several changes to
mailing standards in support of the May
11, 2009 price change, in the Federal
Register on April 6, 2009, and stated:
* * * ‘‘Beginning in January 2010, we
establish a charge for Standard Mail
mailings not meeting Move Update
standards of 7 cents per piece, in
addition to the applicable Standard Mail
postage.’’ The notice and final rule
published today discusses tolerances for
determining when the number of
change-of-address inaccuracies in a
mailing requires additional postage
assessments at the time of acceptance,
and also discusses how the error rate
and additional postage assessment will
be calculated for First-Class Mail and
Standard Mail items at the time of
acceptance.
This assessment approach is not
designed to permit customers to
substitute payment of the Move Update
Assessment Charge for the
implementation of appropriate
processes that meet the requirements of
the Move Update standard. It is
designed to facilitate the acceptance of
mail in the event that a Performance
Based Verification (PBV) process
determines that a sample of the mailing
has an error rate above a tolerance
specified by the Postal Service. If
customers do not certify that they meet
the Move Update requirement or are
determined not to have met this
requirement, they are subject to singlepiece First-Class Mail prices on all
pieces in the mailing.
We provide additional background
and an explanation of the Move Update
standards and new procedures, followed
by changes to the mailing standards in
Mailing Standards of the United States
Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual
(DMM®).
Background
The Move Update standard requires
periodic matching of a mailer’s address
records with customer-filed change-ofaddress (COA) orders received and
maintained by the Postal Service. The
mailer then is required to update the
address on the mailpiece for any
addressee with a COA on file. The goal
is to reduce the number of mailpieces in
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a mailing that require forwarding or
return. Mailers who claim Presorted or
automation prices for First-Class Mail or
any Standard Mail prices must certify
that they have updated the mailing
addresses contained in the mailing
within the 95-day period preceding the
mailing date.
All deficient mailings of commercial
First-Class Mail pieces have been
subject to single-piece First-Class Mail
prices for each piece in the mailing. In
the absence of any action, the same
consequence would have applied to
Standard Mail mailings that Postal
Service acceptance procedures
determine to be deficient. This would
have been a substantial increase in
postage for Standard Mail pieces found
to be deficient at acceptance.
To mitigate this effect, the Postal
Service announced in 2008 that we
would assess 7 cents per piece for all
pieces in Standard Mail mailings with
an error rate (pieces with a COA that
were not updated/total pieces with
COAs) greater than a tolerance
established by the Postal Service. The
assessment was initially intended for
May 2009 implementation. However, in
response to strong customer concerns,
we deferred implementation until
January 2010 via an announcement in
our April 6, 2009 Federal Register
notice.
Consistent with the treatment of
Standard Mail, the Postal Service has
now decided to apply a 7-cent per piece
additional postage charge for First-Class
Mail pieces determined by acceptance
procedures to have an error rate of
greater than 30 percent, effectively
lowering the additional postage
assessments for First-Class Mail pieces.
In addition, for both First-Class Mail
and Standard Mail, the additional
postage charge would apply to the
percentage of the mailing, above the
Postal Service-established tolerance,
determined by sampling to be in error.
Procedures
Performance-Based Verification
procedures at acceptance allow the
Postal Service to test a sample of the
mailing and evaluate the effectiveness of
a customer’s Move Update processes.
The addresses in the verification sample
are compared to the National Change of
Address (NCOA) database. To determine
the change of address accuracy in the
sample, the PBV process will determine
the number of pieces within the sample
that should have been updated with
COA information (A). The PBV process
will then determine the number of
pieces that were not properly updated
(B). The PBV process will calculate the
error rate in the sample by dividing B
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POSTAL SERVICE
39 CFR Part 20
Return Address Requirement --Outbound International Commercial
Bulk Mailings
AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM.
ACTION: Final rule with comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Postal Service is revising the Mailing Standards of the
United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM[reg]) to
require that mailpieces prepared as a commercial bulk mailing must bear
a complete U.S. return address.
DATES: Effective date: January 4, 2010.
Comment date: Mail or deliver written comments until December 4,
2009.
ADDRESSES: Mail or deliver written comments to the Manager, Mailing
Standards, U.S. Postal Service, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., Room 3436,
Washington, DC 20260-3436. You may inspect and photocopy all written
comments at USPS Headquarters Library, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., 11th
Floor N., Washington, DC between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday. E-mail comments, containing the name and address of the
commenter, may be sent to MailingStandards@usps.gov with a subject line
of ``Return Address Requirement--Outbound International Commercial Bulk
Mailings.'' Faxed comments will not be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick Klutts at 813-877-0372.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Postal Service is making this change to
be consistent with the amended regulations of the Universal Postal
Union (UPU) Proposal 25.123.2 that revises Article RL 123, Paragraph 10
of the UPU Letter Post Regulations. This revision will codify that
mailpieces prepared as a commercial bulk mailing must bear a complete
return address in the country of origin of the mail. For this purpose,
a ``bulk mailing'' is any International Priority AirmailTM
(IPA[reg]) or International Surface Air Lift[reg] (ISAL[reg]) mailing,
or any other mailing paid with an advance deposit account presented to
the USPS for weighing and acceptance.
The Postal Service hereby adopts the following changes to Mailing
Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail
Manual (IMM), which is incorporated by reference in the Code of Federal
Regulations. See 39 CFR 20.1.
List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 20
Foreign relations, International postal services.
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Accordingly, 39 CFR part 20 is amended as follows:
PART 20--[AMENDED]
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1. The authority citation for 39 CFR part 20 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 39 U.S.C. 401, 404, 407, 408, 3622,
3632, and 3633.
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2. Revise the following sections of Mailing Standards of the United
States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM), as follows:
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International
Mail Manual (IMM)
1 International Mail Services
* * * * *
120 Preparation for Mailing
* * * * *
122 Addressing
* * * * *
122.2 Return Address
[Revise 122.2 as follows:]
Due to heightened security, many foreign postal administrations
require complete sender and addressee information in roman letters and
arabic numerals on postal items. The complete address of the sender,
including ZIP Code and country of origin, should be shown in the upper
left corner of the address side of the envelope, card, flat, or
package. Only one return address may be used, and it must be located so
that it does not affect either the clarity of the address of
destination or the application of service labels and notations
(postmarks, etc.). Unregistered items bearing a return address in
another country are accepted only at the sender's risk. In the case of
bulk mailings, all mailpieces must bear a complete U.S. return address.
For the purpose of this section, a ``bulk mailing'' is any IPA or ISAL
mailing, or any other mailing paid with an advance
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deposit account presented to the USPS for weighing and acceptance.
* * * * *
2 Conditions for Mailing
* * * * *
290 Commercial Services
* * * * *
292 International Priority Airmail (IPA) Service
* * * * *
292.4 Mail Preparation
[Revise the title and introductory sentence in 292.41 as follows:]
292.41 Addressing and Return Address
IPA mailpieces are subject to the addressing requirements contained
in 122, including the requirement of a complete U.S. return address.
* * * * *
293 International Surface Air Lift (ISAL) Service
* * * * *
293.4 Mail Preparation
[Revise the title and introductory sentence in 293.41 as follows:]
293.41 Addressing and Return Address
ISAL mailpieces are subject to the addressing requirements
contained in 122, including the requirement of a complete U.S. return
address.
* * * * *
We will publish an appropriate amendment to 39 CFR part 111 to
reflect these changes.
Stanley F. Mires,
Chief Counsel.
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