Bound Printed Matter: Flat-Size Mail Co-Packaging and Co-Sacking

Fri, Mar 28 2003 11:00:00 GMT

In this final rule, the Postal Service adopts revisions to the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) that will provide new mail preparation standards for the copackaging and cosacking of flatsize Bound Printed Matter (BPM) mailpieces.

Copackaging is an alternate preparation option that allows the combining of Presorted pieces and barcoded pieces within the same package. Cosacking is a preparation method that allows under specific circumstances the combining of packages of Presorted rate pieces, packages of barcoded pieces, and copackaged pieces, within the same sack.

Effective April 3, 2003, mailers may begin using the copackaging standards for BPM flats. Although copackaging is optional, if a mailer chooses to copackage, then the copackaged pieces must also be co sacked. The required use of the cosacking preparation standards for pieces that are not copackaged becomes mandatory on September 1, 2003. Regardless of the date presented, all mailings that are copackaged must also be cosacked.

The Federal Register

Bound Printed Matter: Flat-Size Mail Co-Packaging and Co-Sacking