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USPS Clarifies Do Not Deliver Requests

Consumers Should Contact the Mailer, Not Their Carrier

The Postal Service wishes to clarify erroneous information in at least two recent news articles regarding requests for non delivery of mail with simplified addressing.

Consumers who do not wish to receive mail with a simplified address must make the request through the mailer, not their carrier. The mailer will then notify the local delivery unit through the same processes currently established for rural routes. Market research indicates that requests for non delivery will be minor.

Simplified Addressing enables a mailer to use mail delivery route information to reach target customer groups in specific areas without applying names or exact addresses.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 24th, 2011 at 1:27 pm and is filed under postal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

  • Huh?

    Suppose a carrier has 30 addresses that have requested not to receive mail with simplified address. How does the carrier know which ones they are? Do they have to consult a list?

  • Huh?

    Now suppose the carrier has another bundle from another mailer and 18 addresses have requested that mailer not to send them unaddressed mail. Does the carrier have another list to consult?

  • Michael

    99% of the people are too lazy to send in a letter to the publishers. So there wont be many of these.

  • brian

    Yes the list is printed from thr MYPO program. It prints just like a hold request. The information will be for an individual customer. The problem will be keepint track of all the individual request letters (kinda like remembering who has a FWD) the other issue will be subs on the route of pivoting. Not that the sub doesn’t check the pink cards… Well I think you get the jist of it

  • retired

    Has Section 131.35 of Handbook M-41, City Delivery Carriers Duties and Responsibilities, been repealed? “Deliver mail according to the instructions or known desire of the addressee.” Or Section 361 Undeliverable Mail? “Accept all mail handed back by customers and pickup undeliverable mail.”

    These written instructions are posted on the NALC website at http://www.nalc.org/depart/cau/pdf/manuals/m41.pdf