Domestic Competitive Products Pricing and Mailing Standards Changes

<RULE> POSTAL SERVICE <CFR>39 CFR Part 111</CFR> <SUBJECT>Domestic Competitive Products Pricing and Mailing Standards Changes</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Postal Service <E T="51">TM</E> . <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Final rule. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The Postal Service is revising <E T="03">Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,</E> Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), to reflect changes to pricing and mailing standards for certain competitive products. </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Effective July 14, 2024. </EFFDATE> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Steven Jarboe at (202) 268-7690, Catherine Knox (202) 268-5636, or Garry Rodriguez at (202) 268-7281. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> This final rule describes new price and product features for competitive products, by class of mail, established by the Governors of the United States Postal Service®. New prices are available under Docket Number CP2024-295 on the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) website at <E T="03">http://www.prc.gov,</E> and on the Postal Explorer® website at <E T="03">http://pe.usps.com.</E> The Postal Service will revise <E T="03">Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,</E> Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), to reflect changes to certain pricing and mailing standards for the following competitive products: • Parcel Select®. • Recipient Services. • Other. Competitive price and product changes are identified by product as follows: <HD SOURCE="HD1">Parcel Select</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD2">Prices</HD> The prices for Parcel Select Destination Entry will increase an average of 25.0 percent. The prices for USPS Connect® Local will increase 15.8 percent. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Recipient Services</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD2">Premium Forwarding Service</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD2">Premium Forwarding Service Local Expansion</HD> Premium Forwarding Service Local (PFS-Local) is being expanded to have mail that is addressed to a residential/individual and business/organization Post Office Box dispatched to a street address when both addresses are within the same local servicing postal facility or sorting and delivery center (S&DC). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Other</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD2">New Network Future State Nomenclature Mapping</HD> Under Phase 1 of the Postal Service network future state, the Postal Service is revising the DMM to provide site mapping nomenclature for facilities ( <E T="03">e.g.,</E> NDC/RPDC). Phase 1 will not include site mapping in the Quick Service Guides (QSGs) or revisions to destination entry pricing nomenclature or labeling lists. In some cases where there is overlapping of nomenclature in the DMM for market dominant and competitive products ( <E T="03">e.g.,</E> DMM 204.3.0), the site mapping nomenclature is included in the New Mailing Standards for Domestic Mailing Services Products <E T="04">Federal Register</E> notice (89 FR 27330-27353). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Resources</HD> The Postal Service provides additional resources to assist customers with this price change for competitive products. These tools include price lists, downloadable price files, and <E T="04">Federal Register</E> Notices, which may be found on the Postal Explorer® website at <E T="03">http://pe.usps.com.</E> The Postal Service adopts the described changes to <E T="03">Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,</E> Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), incorporated by reference in the <E T="03">Code of Federal Regulations.</E> We will publish an appropriate amendment to 39 CFR part 111 to reflect these changes. <LSTSUB> <HD SOURCE="HED">List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111</HD> Administrative practice and procedure, Postal Service. </LSTSUB> Accordingly, the Postal Service amends Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), incorporated by reference in the Code of Federal Regulations as follows ( <E T="03">see</E> 39 CFR 111.1): <HD SOURCE="HED">PART 111—[AMENDED]</HD> <REGTEXT TITLE="39" PART="111"> 1. The authority citation for 39 CFR part 111 continues to read as follows: <HD SOURCE="HED">Authority: </HD> 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 13 U.S.C. 301-307; 18 U.S.C. 1692-1737; 39 U.S.C. 101, 401, 403, 404, 414, 416, 3001-3011, 3201-3219, 3403-3406, 3621, 3622, 3626, 3632, 3633, and 5001. </REGTEXT> <REGTEXT TITLE="39" PART="111"> 2. Revise <E T="03">Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,</E> Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) as follows: <HD SOURCE="HD1">Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">100 Retail Mail Letters, Cards, Flats, and Parcels</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">110 Retail Mail Priority Mail Express</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">113 Prices and Eligibility</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.0 Prices and Fees</HD> <STARS/> [Revise the heading of 1.3 to read as follows:] <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.3 Dimensional Weight Price for Low-Density Parcels</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">120 Retail Mail Priority Mail</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">123 Prices and Eligibility</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.0 Prices and Fees</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">[Revise the heading of 1.3 to read as follows:]</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.3 Dimensional Weight Price for Low-Density Parcels</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">200 Commercial Letters, Cards, Flats, and Parcels</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">201 Physical Standards</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">7.0 Physical Standards for Parcels</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">7.5 Machinable Parcels</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">7.5.4 Exception</HD> [Revise the second sentence of 7.5.4 to read as follows:] * * * The manager, PCSC, in conjunction with the manager, Operations Integration and Support, may authorize such parcels as machinable if the parcels are tested on NDC/RPDC parcel sorters and prove to be machinable. Mailers requesting testing of parcels for machinability must: <STARS/> [Revise the text of item b to read as follows:] b. State the estimated number of parcels to be mailed in the next 12 months, and the anticipated preparation level ( <E T="03">e.g.,</E> destination NDC/RPDC pallets). <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">7.6 Irregular Parcel</HD> [Revise the last sentence of 7.6 to read as follows:] * * * This processing category also includes parcels that cannot be processed by NDC/RPDC parcel sorters, including rolls and tubes up to 26 inches long; merchandise samples that are not individually addressed and are not letter-size or flat-size; unwrapped, paper-wrapped, or sleeve-wrapped articles that are not letter-size or flat-size; and articles enclosed in envelopes that are not letter-size, flat-size, or machinable parcels. <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">210 Commercial Mail Priority Mail Express</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">213 Prices and Eligibility</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.0 Prices and Fees</HD> <STARS/> [Revise the heading of 1.4 to read as follows:] <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.4 Dimensional Weight Price for Low-Density Parcels</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">220 Commercial Mail Priority Mail</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">223 Prices and Eligibility</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.0 Prices and Fees</HD> <STARS/> <E T="03">[Revise the heading of 1.4 to read as follows:]</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.4 Dimensional Weight Price for Low-Density Parcels</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">250 Commercial Mail Parcel Select</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">253 Prices and Eligibility</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.0 Prices and Fees</HD> <STARS/> <E T="03">[Revise the heading of 1.2 to read as follows:]</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">1.2 Dimensional Weight Price for Low-Density Parcels</HD> <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">4.0 Price Eligibility for Parcel Select</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">4.1 Destination Entry Price Eligibility</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">4.1.1 Definition</HD> <E T="03">[Revise the introductory text of 4.1.1 to read as follows:]</E> Parcel Select destination entry prices apply to Parcel Select mailings prepared as specified in 705.8.0, and 255.4.0, and addressed for delivery within the service area of a destination network distribution center/regional processing and distribution center, sectional center facility/regional processing and distribution center, or delivery unit or sorting and delivery center where they are deposited by the mailer. For this standard, the following destination facility definitions apply: <E T="03">[Revise the first sentence of item a to read as follows:]</E> a. A destination network distribution center (DNDC)/regional processing and distribution center (DRPDC) includes all network distribution centers (NDCs)/regional processing and distribution centers (RPDCs) and auxiliary service facilities (ASFs)/regional processing and distribution centers (RPDCs) under L601 and L602, and designated sectional center facilities (SCFs)/regional processing and distribution centers (RPDCs) under 256.2.17. * * * <E T="03">[Revise the first and second sentence of item b to read as follows:]</E> b. A destination sectional center facility (DSCF)/regional processing and distribution center (DRPDC) includes all facilities in L051. Mailers may be redirected to deposit DSCF/DRPDC mail at another USPS-designated facility. * * * <STARS/> <E T="03">[Revise the first sentence of item d to read as follows:]</E> d. A destination delivery unit (DDU) or sorting and delivery center (DS&DC) is a facility that delivers to the addresses appearing on the deposited pieces in a destination entry Parcel Select mailing. * * * <STARS/> <HD SOURCE="HD1">4.1.3 DNDC Prices</HD> For DNDC prices, pieces must meet the applicable standards in 3.0 and the following: <E T="03">[Revise the text of item a to read as follows:]</E> a. Pieces must be part of a Parcel Select destination entry mailing that is deposite ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 101k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━