Intelligent Mail® Non-Compliance Assessments for Full-Service Mailings

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Effective November 7, 2010, The United States Postal Service® (USPS®) will begin applying negative postage assessments to mailers with non-compliant Intelligent Mail Full-Service (IMFS) mailings, or parts thereof. The IMFS discounts ($.003/piece for First-Class Mail® and $.001/piece for Periodicals and Standard Mail®) were implemented in November of 2009. This has essentially provided mailers with a one-year “grace period” in which to work out any IM implementation issues. Once this grace period is up, however, mailers may be subject to loss of their IMFS discounts on any mail not meeting certain IMFS criteria.

Error Reporting

The USPS uses a system called Seamless Acceptance Service Performance (SASP) to collect and report errors in IMFS mailings. Mailers can access the error data for their mailings, called MicroStrategy Reports, using the Business Customer Gateway. The user interface allows mailers to query their error data to create specific reports, which may be viewed in PDF format or downloaded in Excel or .CSV file formats. Mailers should be accessing this data on a regular basis so that they can analyze the information and take any necessary corrective action.Errors in certain electronic documentation (eDocs) requirements (see below) will result in assessments.

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