Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service Domestic Mail Manual > 100 Retail Mail Letters, Cards, Flats, and Parcels > 140 USPS Marketing Mail Flats Every Door DirectMail-Retail (EDDM-Retail) > 146 Enter and Deposit
Overview
1.0 Basic Options
[7-14-24] All EDDM-Retail mailings must be entered directly at the Post Office (or DDU/S&DC) responsible for the Post Office Box or carrier route delivery for which the mailing is prepared, or shipped to that Post Office under 1.2.
Place prepared EDDM-Retail mail, in bundles with facing slips, in Priority Mail boxes, including Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes.
On each box, write “Every Door Direct Mail - Retail” and “Open Immediately.” For multiple boxes, number the boxes, starting with 1 of X, (with “X” being the total number of boxes in the shipment).
Box # 1 (see 1.2.2) for the EDDM-Retail mailing must contain an envelope with the following:
Address the boxes to “Postmaster” at the Post Office that will deliver the mailpieces. To ship them, either bring the boxes to your local Post Office or use Click-N-Ship. Each box must have a USPS Tracking label affixed by the mailer.