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Effective Nov. 23, the Postal Service is increasing its effort to improve the percentage of deliverable mail by revising the Move Update standards. The Move Update standards provide ways for mailers to reduce the number of mailpieces that require forwarding or return by the periodic matching of a mailer’s address records with customer-filed change-of-address orders. The final rule published Sept. 23, 2007, included the following changes related to Move Update processing:

• Increase the minimum frequency of Move Update processing from 185 calendar days to 95 days prior to the date of mailing.
• Extend the revised Move Update standards to include all Standard Mail (letters, flats, parcels and Not Flat-Machinables), as well as automation-rate and presort-rate First-Class Mail.

The Postal Service and the mailing industry believe these revised standards are crucial to the business interests of mailers as well as the continued vitality of the postal system. In fiscal year 2004, the Postal Service handled    9.7 billion pieces of undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) mail at a cost of $1.85 billion. These revised standards will result in better address quality by removing incorrectly addressed pieces from subsequent mailings, which will reduce UAA mail. Read the rest of this entry »

As of Sept 11, you can no longer mail items at the bound printed matter (mail) rate, unless its mailed using a bulk mail permit.  This little change snuck by quite a few people, BPM was the lowest rate you could mail books with and it was abused by quite a few people. I can see why it was changed.

Dont fret, we have a permit! If you are mailing out catalogs, flyers or other items that you used to mail at BPM, we can still mail them for you! We actually might be able to mail them at lower postage rates cheaper than you were mailing at before!  Contact us @ Outback Communications and we will get to work on your project!

If you want to read more about what BPM is click HERE. Otherwise, keep reading about the rule change.

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Everyone likes to save on USPS postage, and the post office does make it easy to know what the various rates are. When looking at form 3602-R, you can see all of those rates getting nice and low as you sort to finer zip codes.  Which is great, and thats most that the average mailer will need to do.

However, there are some lower rates if you look at the entry discounts.  Specifically DSCF and DBMC discounts. (DDU no longer apply, except parcels) DSCF? DBMC? 

• DSCF = Destination Sectional Center Facility Read more HERE
• DBMC = Destination Bulk Mail Center
• DDU = Destination Delivery Unit
• ASF = Auxilliary Service Facility

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