May 2011
An Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB) will be required on all Business Reply Mail and Courtesy Reply Mail.
You must request a Mailer ID (MID) prior to requesting camera ready artwork for an IMB. A Mailer ID can be requested by going to www.usps.com and connecting to the Business Customer Gateway located in the lower right corner. If you have problems call 1-800-522-9085 Option 3, Option 6.
For those of you (or your customers) that use the same bind-in or BRE for multiple mailings throughout the year, keep this regulation in mind when planning your mailings for the coming year and adjust your designs prior to the next printing.
On National PCC Day, Sept 15th the VT PCC will be offering a workshop on the Business Customer Gateway. If you are unfamiliar with this site, mark the date on your calendar and plan to attend!
July 21, 2010 DMM Advisory
Pricing — keeping you informed about the prices and mailing standards of the United States Postal Service
PostalOne! Server Patching (July 25, 2010): The PostalOne! ® production and Testing Environment for Mailers (TEM) application servers will have security patches applied during the scheduled maintenance window of 4:00 a.m. through 8:00 a.m. (CDT) on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The PostalOne! system (including FAST® OPS web services) will be unavailable for internal and external users during this period.
Retirement of FAST Web Services (July 31, 2010): FAST Web Services (Mail.XML® 4.0) will be retired on July 31, 2010. All customers have migrated to either FAST Mail.XML 8.0 or FAST Mail.XML 6.0.
Mail Data Quality Reports Outage (August 1, 2010): Mail Data Quality Reports will be unavailable on Sunday, August 1, 2010, from 4:00 a.m. – 12 Noon (CDT) due to a system upgrade. There will be no additional outage/impact to the PostalOne! system.
FAST Release 14.3.0 and Scheduled Outages (August 15-16, 2010): FAST Release 14.3.0 will deploy to the production environment on Sunday, August 15, 2010. Updated release notes for FAST 14.3.0 are available on RIBBS®>Site Index A-Z>FAST/Surface Visibility>Important Links>FAST Release Notes. The FAST Production system will not be available from 4:00 a.m. through 8:00 a.m. (CDT) on Sunday, August 15, 2010.
FAST Release 14.3.0 deploy to the TEM on Monday, August 16, 2010. The FAST TEM system will not be available from 8:00 a.m. through 12 Noon (CDT) on Monday, August 16, 2010.
July 20, 2010 DMM Advisory
Pricing — keeping you informed about the prices and mailing standards of the United States Postal Service
Updated Federal Register Notices
The following Federal Register notices are available on the Postal Explorer® website at pe.usps.com. Please review and note the deadline for comment periods on the proposed rules.
Content of Periodicals Mail
We are updating “content requirements” on materials eligible for mailing at Periodicals prices with authorized Periodicals publications. This final rule, pending publication, may be implemented at the mailers’ convenience, and will be incorporated into the September update of the DMM®.
Address Management Services – Elimination of the Manual Card Option for Address Sequencing Services
We published this proposed rule to eliminate the manual cards option for Address Sequencing service. Customers are encouraged to comment on or before August 18, 2010.
New Standards for Domestic Mailing Services
We filed a notice of mailing services price adjustments with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), effective in January 2011. This proposed rule provides the mailing standards that would accompany the new prices in 2011. Customers may comment on or before August 9, 2010.
International Mail: Proposed Changes in Prices and Fees
We filed a notice of mailing services price adjustments with the Postal Regulatory Commission, effective in January 2011. This proposed rule provides the mailing standards that would accompany new prices in 2011. Customers may comment on or before August 9, 2010.
July 6, 2010 DMM Advisory
Pricing — keeping you informed about the prices and mailing standards of the United States Postal Service
Postal Service to Seek January 2011 Price Change
As outlined in the Postal Service’s action plan presented on March 2, price changes are one of a series of solutions that we are pursuing to become financially sound.
Later today, we will file with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) a price change proposal for our Market Dominant products, which includes First-Class Mail®, Periodicals, Standard Mail®, Package Services and Special Services.
If approved as proposed, the new prices would take effect on January 2, 2011 – almost two years since the Postal Service™ last raised prices for Market Dominant products. We are seeking an average price increase of 4 to 6 percent for the majority of Market Dominant products.
The prices we are proposing can be viewed online on Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com. Click on the links in the left frame under “*New* Jan. 2, 2011 Proposed Pricing Information.”
The PRC has 90 days to review and make a final ruling on the filing. The PRC can accept or reject all price requests or modify the prices as it deems appropriate.
The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
NEW Mailpiece Deign Professional course called MDP Online is now available at nced.com/bma.
This is the only mailpiece design certification program approved by the US Postal Service. This self-paced eLearning the cost will be $75 per person payable through NCED.
This course includes:
· Postal addressing standards
· Classes of mail and processing categories
· POSTNET, Intelligent Mail and parcel barcoding formats and print specifications
· Designing automation letters and flats (tabbing, polywrap, deflection, flexibility, etc.)
· Reply mail (Business, Courtesy, Meter, and Permit Reply and Merchandise Return Service)
· Address Information Products and Move Update
Participants will also receive information on design standards for Customized Market Mail, Repositionable Notes, Election Mail Logos, Privately Printed Labels and Reusable Envelopes. The certification exam can be taken online at the participant’s convenience. April 26, 2010
To: All PCC Members
The Burlington BMEU Acceptance Hours will be changing Effective November 30, 2009. The new hours of Acceptance will be 10:00 a.m.---- 5:00 p.m.
We also have a critical entry time "CET" at the Processing Plant for standard mail which is at 4:00 p.m..
The hour change may not effect most of you but in some cases it may effect your operations and transportation.
At this Time plant loads will remain as is. I will be out to speak to the plant load customers within the next few days.
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to call me at 802-872-2281.
Thank you for using the US Postal Service.
Tony Poulin
BMEU Supervisor / A
Burlington VT, 05401
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