A Flurry of Postal Updates: Droop Test, Move Update, Winter Sale, Dry Release Cards
Don Landis, VP, Postal Affairs
The postal world is always busy, but this week we have received quite a few updates and wanted to makes sure you were aware of the following:
1. DROOP TEST: As announced earlier this year, the USPS will be implementing revised deflection, or droop standards on January 4, 2010. It was announced today, however, that the penalty for not complying with those standards will not be enforced until June of 2010.
2. MOVE UPDATE: Just a reminder that the USPS will implement the penalty phase on the Move Update Standards on January 4, 2010. Catalogers must use one of these USPS approved methods: NCOALink, FASTforward, OneCode ACS, Address Change Service, Ancillary Service Endorsement without ACS. Those using an alternative addressing format such as “Or Current Resident” are not subject to the Move Update Standards.
3. WINTER SALE: We regretfully report that there will be no USPS Winter Sale. There will be a Spring Sale starting in April. Details to come the week of December 20. As soon as we can report more, we will send an update to all of you.
4. DRY RELEASE CARDS: Effective November 20, 2009, the USPS announced that it will allow dry release cards to be affixed to the outside of a catalog when the specifications defined here are met. (For catalogs, please refer to the section titled, “Flats with Attached Release Cards.”) Arandell Corporation is equipped to affix dry release cards and we are happy to work with you to create a catalog layout that adheres to these specifications.
For questions regarding these announcements or any other postal issues, please feel free to contact myself or Susan Pinter any time. We can also be reached at 800-558-8724.
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No winter sale?? Could it be there is a National Mail Count coming up in feb/mar???Why would the usps have a sale? Gosh, they would have to pay us for handling the mail. This way, we have virtually no mail for the two weeks of national mail count… then WHAM We get hit with ’sale mail’. So that we are handling two to three times the volume at wages set for a much lower volume. Who wins? Upper mgmt no doubt. The mail handler and carrier crafts Always take the hit. How about the upper three tiers of national management take a constant, year after year after year pay cut as we the people who actually do ALL the physical work of delivering the mail have done for the past 5 years. 28% pay increase for mr.P in 2002-2009 Happy New Year.