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ACTION: Postage meters:
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of change to the Retirement Plan for Manually Set Postage Meters.
SUBJECT CATEGORY: Change to the Retirement Plan for Manually Set Postage Meters
DATES: This notice is effective on October 4, 2004.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY: By this notice, the Postal ServiceTM revises the Retirement Plan for Manually Set Postage Meters, published in the Federal Register on December 13, 2000, pages 7793477938, for meters with lease expiration dates on or after October 1, 2004. The retirement date for these manually set electronic meters will be May 31, 2005. The Postal Service will no longer reset electronic manually set meters after February 28, 2005.
SUMMARY: Manually set postage meters: retirement plan,
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
A notice was published in the Federal Register on June 15, 2004, pages 3342933430, with comments due on or before July 15, 2004. Written comments were received from the vendor community. There was no opposition to the proposal to retire all manually set electronic meters from service by May 31, 2005.An exception was taken to the proposed restriction on replacing a malfunctioning manually set meter with a functional meter of the same model. The Postal Service reconsidered its proposal and removed this restriction. Replacement meters will be permitted up to February 28, 2005.
You can review the comments received by submitting a request to the
office of Postage Technology Management at (703) 2923691 or by fax at (703) 2924073.
The final plan follows.
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The Revised Plan For Manually Set Postage Meters
The Postal Service retirement date for manually set electronic meters with lease expiration dates on or after October 1, 2004, will be May 31, 2005. The Postal Service will no longer reset electronic manually set meters after February 28, 2005. Anyone in possession of a manually set meter must return it to the meter provider on or before May 31, 2005. The meter provider will withdraw the meter from service.
Any manually set electronic postage meter that is capable of remote meter setting must be either converted to remote meter setting or retired from service and returned to the meter provider. The function that allows manual setting must be disabled.
The manager of Postage Technology Management, Postal Service
Headquarters, will send official notification to those affected users
with an explanation of this plan. Any other explanation received by
users may not accurately represent the position of the Postal Service. Stanley F. Mires,
Chief Counsel, Legislative.
[FR Doc. 0422232 Filed 10104; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Wayne A. Wilkerson, manager of Postage Technology Management, at (703) 2923691 or by fax at (703) 2924073.
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