207a Quick Service Guide

Periodicals Nonprofit, Classroom, and Science-of-Agriculture

Related QSGs

207c, Periodicals Nonbarcoded Letters

207d, Periodicals Nonbarcoded Flats

207e, Periodicals Barcoded (automation) Letters

207f, Periodicals Barcoded (automation) Flats

Prices and Fees (207.1.0)

See Notice 123Price List.

No additional fee to mail at a Preferred Periodicals price.

Prices include piece charges, pound prices (advertising and nonadvertising), Outside-County bundle and container charges, and applicable discounts.

The Preferred price discount applies to Outside-County postage, excluding the postage for advertising pounds, for Nonprofit, Science-of-Agriculture, and Classroom publications; In-County prices apply to all eligible in-county copies (207.11.3).

Apply the Outside-County bundle and container prices as follows:

Eligibility Standards (207.10.0, 207.11.0)

Available for publications authorized under specific standards for Nonprofit, Classroom (207.10.0), or Science-of-Agriculture (207.11.0) prices.

Application form required (207.5.1).

Nonprofit standards: the publication must be issued by and in the interest of a religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic, agricultural, labor, veterans’, or fraternal organization not organized for profit and none of whose net income benefits a private stockholder or individual (207.10.0). Also generally eligible (regardless of the nonprofit status of the publishing organization) are:

Classroom: publication must be designed for educational, religious, or scientific use in school classrooms or religious instruction classes.

Science-of-Agriculture: prices apply to Outside-County copies of an authorized Periodicals publication mailed by a publisher or news agent when the total copies provided during any 12-month period to subscribers residing in rural areas are at least 70% of the total number of copies distributed by any means for any purpose.

Postage Payment and Documentation (207.16.0, 207.17.0)

Identification: title on cover and identification statement (207.4.11).

Postage statement: PS Form 3541, Periodicals One Issue or One Edition, or approved facsimile.

Advance deposit account(s) at original and each additional entry Post Office, unless authorized under Centralized Postage Payment (CPP) (207.16.5).

Mail Preparation

Nonbarcoded Letters and Flats (207.22.0), Carrier Route (207.23.0), Barcoded Letters (207.24.0), or Barcoded Flats (207.25.0), as appropriate.

Enter and Deposit (207.28.0)

Deposit only at authorized original and additional entry Post Office(s), unless authorized exceptional dispatch under 207.28.3.