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The Postal Service is reminding customers that metallic mercury and devices containing metallic mercury are always prohibited in the mail stream. This includes antique items such as thermometers, barometers, blood pressure monitors and similar devices.

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April 27, 2015

April DMM Update

Postal Explorer^® (pe.usps.com) is your source for up-to-date mailing standards. The Domestic Mail Manual (DMM^®) is fully searchable on Postal Explorer and features fly-out menus, cross-reference links, and an extensive subject index. Today we updated our mailing standards to include the following changes:

Clarification of Content Eligibility for Standard Mail Marketing Parcels

We revised 243 to reaffirm basic eligibility standards for Standard Mail Marketing Parcels. We published this information in the April 2, 2015, Postal Bulletin.

Premium Forwarding Service Commercial

We revised 507.3.0 to update the online payment option for Premium Forwarding Service Commercial® (PFS-Commercial™) service. We published this information in the April 16, 2015, Postal Bulletin.

Updated Restrictions—Freely Associated States (FAS)

We revised 503.1.0 and 608.2.0 to clarify the references to restrictions for Freely Associated States. We published this information in the April 16, 2015, Postal Bulletin.

Our next scheduled DMM update is May 31, 2015.