PB 22164 - September 29, 2005 - USPS.com® - About

POSTAL BULLETIN 22164 (9-29-05)
b. Month and Year. Mailers may use a complete date or
a mailing date consisting solely of the month and
year in the indicia only for Standard Mail and Package
Services pieces.
c. No Date. Mailers must use indicia with no mailing
date for prepaid metered reply postage. As an option,
mailers may use indicia with no mailing date for Standard
Mail and Package Services pieces not subject
to 4.5.2a.
4.5.2 Mailing Date Accuracy and Mailing Periods
The date or period when mailers may deposit or present
metered mail for mailing is controlled by the mailing date in
the indicia under the following conditions.
a. Complete Date. Mailpieces bearing a complete date
in the indicia must be deposited or presented on that
date, except that pieces entered after the day’s last
scheduled collection from the Post Office or
collection box may bear the actual date of entry or the
date of the next scheduled collection from the Post
Office or collection box. When authorized by USPS,
presort mail accepted after midnight may bear the
previous day’s date. If the mailer knows that the mail
is not to be deposited or presented on the date in the
indicia, the mailer must use a date correction
indicium under 4.4.1.
b. Month and Year. Mailpieces bearing only the month
and year in the indicia may be deposited or presented
for mailing on any day during the month shown in
the indicia and through the third day of the following
month.
c. No Date. Mailpieces bearing no date in the indicia
may be deposited or presented for mailing on any
date.
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[Delete 4.10.1 through 4.10.3. Renumber 4.10.4 as 4.5.3
and revise to read as follows:]
4.5.3 Deposit of Mail
Mailers must deposit or enter mailpieces with metered or
PC Postage indicia according to the following conditions.
a. Mailers may deposit Express Mail, flat-rate Priority
Mail, single-piece rate First-Class Mail, single-piece
rate Media Mail, and single-piece rate Library Mail
items with metered or PC Postage indicia at any
postal facility, preferably within the area of the customer’s
local Post Office.
b. Mailers must deposit all mail not specified in item a at
the authorized mailing office (for presort rate mail) or
at a postal facility within the ZIP Code shown in the
indicia.
c. Mailers also may drop ship metered mail according to
standards in 705.17.
[Renumber old 4.10.5 as 4.5.4 and 4.11 as 4.6. Revise title
and text of 4.6 to read as follows:]
4.6 Authorization to Produce and Distribute
Postage Evidencing Systems
Title 39, Code of Federal Regulations, part 501, contains
information concerning authorization to produce and distribute
postage evidencing systems. Additional information
may be obtained from the manager, Postage Technology
Management, USPS Headquarters (see 608.8.0 for address).
[Delete 5.0.]
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— Postage Technology Management,
Product Development, 9-29-05