USPS® Post Office and Blue Collection Box Location Dataset Briefing Sheet

Addresses API - Tech Sheet

USPS Addresses API - Completing PS Form 3553

Commonly Asked Mailpiece Design Analyst (MDA) Customer Questions

Commonly asked questions and answers from MDA customers.

IMpb/IMmb Electronic File Transmission Requirements

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.

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

Informed Visibility® Mail Tracking & Reporting (IV®-MTR) Fact Sheet

This fact sheet provides an overview of the benefits of the IV-MTR application and where to go for more information.

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.

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.

Ballot Mail & Political Mail STIDs Fact Sheet

PostalOne!® Contingency Plan

Secure Destruction Fact Sheet

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

Secure Destruction Mail Service - How it Works!

SD Data Security Considerations and Comparisons Guidance

This document provides additional information on Secure Destruction and general information security.

eVS and USPS Ship Online Report and IV®-MTR Data Feed Comparison

eVS and USPS Ship Online Report and Informed Visibility® Mail Tracking & Reporting IV®-MTR Data Feed Comparison

Mail Anywhere Fact Sheet

Mailers have the opportunity to use the same permit at any location via the Mail Anywhere program. 

Mailing Date Change Option for Seamless Mailers

eInduction Fact Sheet

Newspaper Mail Preparation & Entry

Guidance for Newspaper Publishers 

Periodicals: Customer Service Issues

Guidance for Resolving Periodicals Delivery Issues

NCOALink® End User Monthly Electronic Product Fulfillment (EPF) Schedule

This document provides information on the NCOA^Link® End User Monthly Fulfillment Schedule for EPF.

Seamless Acceptance: Mailer Fact Sheet

Participation Criteria To participate in Seamless Acceptance all pieces must be uniquely barcoded, included in electronic documentation (eDoc) and mailers must meet the following requirements:

•Meet all the content and price eligibility standards for the price claimed.

     *There is no minimum activity specific to Seamless Acceptance.

•Prepare eligible volume as Full-Service

•Participate in the Seamless Parallel Program

•Participate in eInduction for DMU-verified origin entry or destination entry-drop shipments

Seamless Acceptance Incentive Fact Sheet

Information regarding eligibility, rules, and requirements for the Seamless Incentive.
 

Automated Certificate of Mailing Fact Sheet

USPS Nonprofit Marketing Mail Fact Sheet

For Nonprofit Organizations Seeking to Mail at Reduced Postage Prices.

Periodicals: Statement of Ownership

Periodicals: Statement of Ownership Fact Sheet (PS Form 3526 / PS Form 3526-R).

Periodicals - Identification (ID) Statement

Description of the content requirements for all Periodicals ID Statements. 

Postal Wizard Fact Sheet

Postal Wizard is an online tool that gives small-volume mailers a secure, electronic means for submitting postage statements and simplifies calculating postage, checking balance and fees, and viewing mailing reports and mailing history.