Mailing & Fulfillment — Looming Changes for Mailers

Similarly, strategies to aggregate more volume into a single mailing improve the chances for finer pre-sort, wider use of destination entry, and for better rates accordingly.

Even though "Move Update" standards have applied to discount First Class Mail for more than a decade, the continuing volume and cost to the Postal Service associated with undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) mail would suggest those rules weren't effective. So, last year, the Postal Service conducted a long-awaited rulemaking to tighten and expand those standards, shortening the update period from 185 to 95 days before the date of mailing and extending the rule's effect to Standard Mail.