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MailPro The new Express Mail commercial base prices are 3 percent lower than retail prices. |
Priority Mail Priority Mail retail prices are increasing by 6 percent on average, with individual prices increasing from zero to 10 percent. The price increases tend to be larger for relatively heavy pieces and for pieces that are transported long distances. The Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope retail price, as well as the unzoned 1-pound rate, will be $4.80. The two regular flat-rate boxes will be $9.80 at retail. The large flat-rate box, introduced March 3, remains $12.95 to domestic addresses and $10.95 to APO/FPO destination addresses. Priority Mail Commercial Base Prices Commercial base prices will be available to customers who use Click-N-Ship, customers who are registered end-users of PC Postage producing individual shipping labels and customers using permit imprint manifest mailing systems (MMS) with electronic confirmation services. If your MMS does not provide routing barcode information separately, or included in a concatenated barcode, it must do so by Oct. 1, 2008, to maintain commercial base price eligibility. See Publication 91, Confirmation Services Technical Guide, at pe.usps.com, click Additional Publications. Commercial base prices apply to postage only, and not extra services such as insurance and pickup-on-demand service. Priority Mail with postage paid with one of the previous methods retains no-fee — (electronic) — Delivery Confirmation service. Priority Mail commercial base prices are 1 percent to 11 percent lower, depending on weight and zone, than retail prices, and are 2.2 percent on average lower than Priority Mail prices prior to May 12. Unlike Express Mail, which has a uniform percentage off for commercial mail, there is a separate Priority Mail commercial base price list (see page 22). The commercial base prices for Priority Mail flat-rate packaging is as follows: Parcel Select Parcel Select is the Postal Service’s ground product for high-volume shippers. Parcels are primarily for destination entry, such as Parcel Select-Destination Delivery Unit (DDU), Parcel Select-Destination Sectional Center Facility (DSCF) and Parcel Select-Destination Bulk Mail Center (DBMC). Parcel Select will now include Inter-BMC/ASF parcels prepared and mailed at Origin BMC (OBMC) Presort and BMC Presort, as well as machinable parcels prepared for barcoded discounts. Parcel Select prices are increasing by 5.7 percent on average, and priced to encourage Parcel Select shippers to enter parcels at DDUs. To encourage volume growth and continued use of Parcel Select, beginning June 1, 2009, we will offer loyalty and growth incentives to large-volume shippers. These annual rebates will be available to shippers whose total annual Parcel Select postage is at least $5 million and whose Parcel Select volume increases over their total volume for the previous year. These shippers will receive rebates based on all Parcel Select-DDU volumes. Customers whose Parcel Select volume grows by more than 10 percent will be eligible for an additional rebate applied only to qualified incremental Parcel Select DDU volume (see DMM 456.2.0). Parcel Return Service Parcel Return Service (PRS) is the Postal Service’s parcel return ground product for high-volume shippers. Customers bring parcel returns to select return delivery units (RDUs), or any return bulk mail center (RBMC). The overall average price increase is 2.2 percent; however, the new structure prices RDU parcels by weight, which results in a decrease to lighter-weight parcels. RDU prices are not subject to balloon rate criteria. RBMC prices will continue to be based on weight and zone and the balloon rate criteria. International Mail In May 2007, we completed a major restructuring of our international services by streamlining the international mail offerings and more closely aligning each international service with its domestic counterpart. At this time, only a limited number of structural changes to the international product line are being made in order to continue the alignment with our domestic services. |
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