Addresses API - Tech Sheet

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.

Marriage Mail Incentive Fact Sheet

Marriage Mail is a form of direct mail in which marketing service companies combine or “marry” advertisements (e.g., coupons or sales notices) from multiple companies into one mail piece to reduce the cost of the mailing for individual advertisers. The Marriage Mail Incentive is a discounted (incentive) price offered on Saturation (including EDDM-Commercial) and High Density Plus Marketing Mail letters and flats which meet certain requirements including weight and advertiser content. It has been developed in response to market needs and will benefit the mailing industry, small businesses, consumers and the USPS. As of July 12, 2026, the Incentive price will be a 20% discount on qualifying pieces.

Address Information System (AIS) Products Pricing

Pricing guide for Address Information System (AIS) products, including Carrier Route, ZIP + 4^®, Five-Digit ZIP^®, City State, Delivery Statistics, Z4Change, ZIPMove, eLOT^®, and RDI™.

Population Mobility Trends Briefing Sheet

Occupancy Trends Briefing Sheet

IMpb/IMmb Electronic File Transmission Requirements

IMpb (Intelligent Mail® Package Barcode & IMmb (Intelligent Mail® Matrix Barcode) Verification Fact Sheet

Mailpiece Design Analyst (MDA) Customer Service Help Desk Brochure

An overview brochure for the MDA Customer Service Help Desk, including services, benefits, and contact information.

Pay Permit Fees and Auto-Fee Renewal Fact Sheet

Please note that the BCG user must be the BSA or BSA delegate for manage mailing activity and be the EPS administrator or payment manager to use this service.

Premium Forwarding Service Commercial Fees

Ancillary Service Endorsement Fact Sheet

Ancillary service endorsements are used by mailers to request an addressee’s new address or the reason mail cannot be
delivered as addressed and to provide the US Postal Service with instructions on how to handle Undeliverable As Addressed
(UAA) mailpieces.

Addressing Fact Sheet for First-Class Flats

This document is for mailers who are sending flat-size mail (such as large envelopes) at Automation and Presorted First-Class Mail prices. To use these prices, you must mail at least 500 pieces at a time, prepared and sorted according to Postal Service guidelines. 

Addressing Fact Sheet for USPS Marketing Mail Flats

This document is for business mailers who are sending flat-size USPS Marketing Mail (such as large envelopes, catalogs, and circulars). To use the USPS Marketing Mail prices, you must send at least 200 pieces or 50 pounds of mail at a time, prepared and sorted according to Postal Service guidelines.

USPS Ship Package Data Feeds

This document outlines the steps for shippers to access package data feeds through the USPS Informed Visibility Mail Tracking & Reporting (IV-MTR) application.

Ballot Mail & Political Mail STIDs Fact Sheet

PostalOne!® Contingency Plan

Secure Destruction Fact Sheet

Licensing Fees

This document contains information about licensing fees for USPS^® Licensed Products.

Address Matching System API (AMS API) Licensing Fees

This document outlines the AMS API prorated fee structure. License fees are prorated for the initial license year with a license year beginning October 1 and ending September 30.

About Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) User Group 2

This document provides a brief description of MTAC User Group 2 for PTR and eVS/USPS Ship and provides a contact for joining the group.

EPS - PC Postage Fact Sheet

Intelligent Mail Tray Label Technical Fact Sheet

This document provides fact sheet providing technical specifications on the acquisition, implementation, and benefits of the Intelligent Mail Tray Label.

About Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) User Group 4

This document provides a brief description of MTAC User Group 4 for mail visibility and provides a contact for requesting to join the group.

BME Mailing Exception Request Process