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USPS also eliminated the Parcel Post nonmachinable surcharge and the local zone no longer has a separate price. This change aligned Parcel Post prices and zones with other classes of mail. The oversized price remains as part of the price structure. Parcel Select BMC and OBMC Presort, and Parcel Select Barcoded Nonpresort have the same price structure as retail Parcel Post. New Bronze Tier for Confirm Services Confirm service — also known as “OneCode Confirm” when using Intelligent Mail barcodes — offers more choices for customers than ever before. The new Bronze subscription tier provides an affordable option for smaller-volume mailers who prefer to receive their data directly from the Postal Service. Customers can also have the Confirm system send data to whomever they choose, such as a service provider or an affiliated organization. The Postal Service also is offering new data distribution options for Full-Service Intelligent Mail customers who are not Confirm subscribers. For instance, USPS can generate Confirm data using a non-subscriber's mailer ID in the barcode and send that data to a Confirm subscriber through the Full-Service Intelligent Mail data distribution process. Subscribers must register the mailer ID in Confirm and pay the "additional ID" fee. This option is just one of the many Full-Service Intelligent Mail benefits supported by Confirm and other applications, such as OneCode ACS. Move Update Move Update provides a tool for customers to ensure that their messages get to all the right addresses. Business mail entry units continue to work with customers to help them improve their address quality by sharing data. Beginning Jan. 4, 2010, USPS is fully implementing the Nov. 23, 2008, Move Update standards. The new Move Update noncompliance charge will be 7 cents per piece for Standard Mail mailings that do not comply with the Move Update standards. Desktop Resources You can always find complete domestic and international pricing information online at usps.com/prices. This website provides helpful information for mailers and is updated regularly — so add it to your list of “favorites.” The March/April 2009 issue of MailPro can be viewed at usps.com/mailpro. And don’t forget, up-to-date versions of the Domestic Mail Manual and International Mail Manual, as well as new postage statements, are available on Postal Explorer at pe.usps.com. Saturation mail offers mailers a low-cost alternative to target advertising messages geographically in a local market. To help mailers grow their business at affordable prices and encourage volume growth, the Postal Service has created an incentive program for mailers who increase their saturation Standard Mail letters or flats volume between May 11, 2009, and May 10, 2010. This increase could result from growth of their total mailed volume or from growth within a defined market area. Mailers wishing to participate must submit a letter requesting participation to their district manager, business mail entry no later than Aug. 1, 2009. Requests must be completed and submitted by an authorized official of the business or nonprofit entity that owns the mail. Participating mailers must demonstrate saturation mailing activity in both the 2007 and 2008 calendar years, with a minimum of six saturation mailings in the 2008 calendar year. Participating mailers must also pay postage through a permit imprint advance deposit account at the time of application and must have a functioning Centralized Account Payment System (CAPS) account before May 10, 2010. Each permit imprint advance deposit account used for the payment of postage for saturation mailings must be established at a postal facility having PostalOne! capability. The incentive program provides a per-piece credit at the end of the program period, to the approved mailer’s CAPS account for the verified saturation mail letters and flats volume that exceeds the previous year’s volume. By type of mail, the credits for incremental volume are as follows: • Standard Mail saturation flats: 4 cents per piece. • Standard Mail saturation letters: 3.7 cents per piece. • Nonprofit Standard Mail saturation flats: 2.4 cents per piece. • Nonprofit Standard Mail saturation letters: 2.2 cents per piece. Mailers interested in obtaining additional information can visit the RIBBS website at ribbs.usps. gov or see the Feb. 23 Federal Register, available on Postal Explorer at pe.usps.gov.
Franchisees that are not separate business entities may not apply for the incentive independently of the parent organization. Printers and mailing agents may not request participation on behalf of customers for which they prepare mail. |
MailPro Go to Postal Explorer at pe.usps.com for Domestic Mail Manual and other resources. |
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