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POSTAL SERVICE
39 CFR Part 111
Domestic Mail Manual Revisions to Implement Changes in Postal
Rates and Fees
AGENCY: Postal Service.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: As announced elsewhere in today's Federal Register, new
domestic postal rates and fees will take effect on January 1, 1995.
Implementing standards for these rate and fee changes have been
developed and are set forth below. Although they are to take effect on
January 1, 1995, comments on these standards are solicited, and any
proposed changes will be considered and acted upon as appropriate.
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 1995.
ADDRESSES: Mail or deliver written comments to the Manager, Mailing
Standards, USPS Headquarters, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC
20260-2419. Copies of all written comments will be available for
inspection and photocopying between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday, in Room 5610 at the above address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leo F. Raymond, (202) 268-5199.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 12, 1994, the Governors of the
Postal Service allowed the changes in rates and fees contained in the
Opinion and Recommended Decision of the Postal Rate Commission in
Docket No. R94-1 to take effect under protest. The Board of Governors
ordered these changes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 1995.
More information about Docket No. R94-1 and the process that produced
the Governors' action is contained in the notice mentioned above,
published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register.
Accordingly, the Postal Service has amended its Domestic Mail
Manual (DMM) standards to incorporate these revised rates and fees. A
complete revision to DMM Module R, Rates and Fees, appears below, and
will be included in DMM Issue 48, to be published in early 1995. Since
Docket No. R94-1 did not include changes in mail classification or in
the content (other than the monetary value) or structure of postage
rates and fees, no other DMM revisions are necessary to implement the
Governors' decision.
The Postal Service has also amended its domestic mailing statements
to reflect the revised rates for postage; a complete set of those forms
follows the DMM revision. Nonsubstantive format changes have also been
made at this time, primarily to accommodate inclusion of a Centralized
Trust Accounting System (CTAS) identification number on permit imprint
mailing (-N and -R suffix) statements and to amend how postage is
reported for postage affixed mailing (-PC suffix) statements.
The revised DMM standards, a revised Notice 123, Ratefold, the
revised domestic mailing statements, and miscellaneous implementation
instructions for postal employees will be contained in a special Postal
Bulletin being issued in the near future. In addition to copies
prepared for standard distribution to postal employees and public
subscribers, bulk quantities of the special Postal Bulletin are being
provided to most post offices. Production and distribution of the
special Postal Bulletin and the revised mailing statements began
immediately following the Governors' action to implement revised
domestic rates, so copies of these documents should become available in
late December or early January. While each receiving postal facility
will determine and manage redistribution of the special Postal
Bulletin, interested customers may contact the manager, business mail
entry, for the district in which they are located. (A list of these
persons and the ZIP Code areas they service is contained in DMM G042.)
Until the new mailing statements are available, the current versions
may be used with appropriate amendments, or the illustrations of the
revised forms (published in the special Postal Bulletin) may be
photocopied and completed.
List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111
Postal Service.
For the reasons discussed above, the Postal Service hereby adopts
the following amendments to the Domestic Mail Manual, which is
incorporated by reference in the Code of Federal Regulations (see 39
CFR part 111).
PART 111--[AMENDED]
1. The authority citation for 39 CFR part 111 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 39 U.S.C. 101, 401, 403, 404, 3001-
3011, 3201-3219, 3403-3406, 3621, 3626, 5001.
2. Revise the Domestic Mail Manual R Module and 14 mailing
statements to read as set forth below.
Stanley F. Mires,
Chief Counsel, Legislative.
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