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Pricing & Classification DMM Advisory

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October 26, 2012

Shipping Services Price Change Federal Register Notice

Domestic Competitive Products Pricing and Mailing Standards Changes (Shipping Services) — This final rule Federal Register Notice was published today. We provide revised mailing standards in the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM^®) to reflect prices, product features, and classification changes to domestic competitive products (Shipping Services), including Express Mail^®, Priority Mail^®, First-Class Package Service™, Parcel Select^®, Parcel Post^®, Extra Services, Return Services, Mailer Services, and Recipient Services.

See the entire notice at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-10-26/html/2012-26243.htm.

The effective date is January 27, 2013.