New Mailing Standards for Domestic Mailing Services Products
| Published date | 22 December 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 83450 |
| Record Number | 2020-27020 |
| Section | Rules and Regulations |
| Court | Postal Service |
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 246 (Tuesday, December 22, 2020)
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 22, 2020)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 83450-83451]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-27020]
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POSTAL SERVICE
39 CFR Part 111
New Mailing Standards for Domestic Mailing Services Products
AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: On October 9, 2020, the Postal Service (USPS[supreg]) filed a
notice of mailing services price adjustments with the Postal Regulatory
Commission (PRC), effective January 24, 2021. This final rule contains
the revisions to Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]) to implement the changes coincident
with the price adjustments.
DATES: Effective Date: January 24, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacqueline Erwin at (202) 268-2158 or
Dale Kennedy at (202) 268-6592.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 18, 2020, the PRC favorably
reviewed the price adjustments proposed by the Postal Service. The
price adjustments and DMM revisions are scheduled to become effective
on January 24, 2021. Final prices are available under Docket No. R2021-
1 (Order No. 5757) on the Postal Regulatory Commission's website at
www.prc.gov.
Seamless Acceptance Incentive
USPS is providing a $.001 per mailpiece incentive. The incentive is
available for First-Class Mail, USPS Marketing Mail, Periodicals and
Bound Printed Matter mail flats that use the Full-Service Intelligent
Mail barcode (IMb) option. The change provides an incentive to the
Electronic Documentation (eDoc) submitters (with a Seamless CRID and an
Enterprise Payment System Account) for adoption of the program. The
incentive would be based on the eDoc submitter's Customer Registration
ID (CRID).
A Seamless Mailer is defined by their CRID's status in PostalOne!
as ``Seamless Acceptance.'' Note: Seamless Parallel does not qualify
for the discount. The proposal is to allow Electronic Documentation
(eDoc) submitters to receive a Seamless Acceptance incentive for the
pieces that claim Full-Service prices in the mailing, provided the eDoc
submitter has an Enterprise Payment account that is used for the
incentive.
The incentive is available to all eDoc submitters with a
Seamless Acceptance CRID and an Enterprise Payment account who enroll
in PostalOne!
The incentive is applied to the Enterprise Payment account
that corresponds with the permit selected during registration to
receive the discount.
A permit that corresponds with an Enterprise Payment trust
or ACH debit account must be selected, in PostalOne!, to receive the
incentive. Trust accounts will receive the incentive upon postage
statement finalization and ACH debit accounts will receive the
incentive as a daily aggregate.
Mail.dat changes: No impact--Use existing Segment Record's
(.seg) ``eDoc Sender CRID'' field to identify the CRID of the eDoc
submitter.
Mail.XML changes: No impact--Use existing
OpenMailingGroupRequest > MailingGroupData > MailingFacilityfield to
identify the CRID of the eDoc submitter.
Postage Statement Changes: No impact--For eligible
mailings the postage may be paid using any authorized payment account.
Intelligent Mail for Small Business--Mailing Agent CRID
(same as Permit Holder CRID) is used as the eDoc Submitter CRID.
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Business Mail Entry Unit--Hard-copy Postage Statement
entry (only for contingency)--Mailing Agent CRID must be populated on
the Postage Statement.
Shipping Services File (SSF) Changes: No impact.
Indicium Creation Record (ICR) File: No impact.
Price Change Type/Product Type: Market Dominant Comments
on Proposed Changes and USPS Responses.
The Postal Service did not receive any formal comments on the
October 15, 2020 proposed rule (85 FR 65311).
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List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111
Administrative practice and procedure, Postal Service.
The Postal Service adopts the following changes to Mailing
Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual
(DMM), incorporated by reference in the Code of Federal Regulations.
See 39 CFR 111.1.
Accordingly, 39 CFR part 111 is amended as follows:
PART 111--[AMENDED]
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1. The authority citation for 39 CFR part 111 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 13 U.S.C. 301-307; 18 U.S.C. 1692-
1737; 39 U.S.C. 101, 401, 403, 404, 414, 416, 3001-3011, 3201-3219,
3403-3406, 3621, 3622, 3626, 3632, 3633, and 5001.
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2. Revise the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) as follows:
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail
Manual (DMM)
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Notice 123 (Price List)
[Revise prices as applicable.]
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We will publish an appropriate amendment to 39 CFR part 111 to
reflect these changes.
Joshua J. Hofer,
Attorney, Federal Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2020-27020 Filed 12-21-20; 8:45 am]
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