08/02/2024
07/16/2024
Catalog Incentive Fact Sheet
Catalogs offer a unique marketing perspective to products and services and provide important value to the mailbox. As part of the July 14, 2024 price change, USPS published a new Catalog definition in the Domestic Mail Manual. Simultaneously, the Postal Service is offering a Catalog Incentive price discount of $0.001 per mailpiece to Catalog mailers who comply with the new Catalog definition and meet all other eligibility requirements for the Catalog Incentive.
07/10/2024
07/05/2024
Locale Type Codes
Listing of available Locale Type Codes
06/20/2024
TED-C Mailpieces & Informed Delivery®
To ensure die-cut visibility for Informed Delivery® recipients, the leftmost edge of the die-cut extension must be in Zone C of the TED-C Letter Template. If the die-cut extension's leftmost edge is not in ZONE C, it may be acceptable to mail, but there may not be any visibility of the die-cut in Informed Delivery® for recipients.
04/18/2024
Service Type Identifier (STID) Table Effective January 21, 2024
The STID (Service Type Identifier) is a three-digit numeric code used within the Intelligent Mail® barcode (IMb™) on a mailpiece that identifies the address correction or other electronic services desired. The STID Table allows you to determine which STID to use based on the mail class, address correction option, use of IV®-MTR and whether the mail contains a Full Service or Basic IMb.
03/08/2024
02/02/2024
01/18/2024
01/09/2024