Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 22.10.1998

Mailing OnLine Market Test Implementation Standards; Changes in Domestic Classifications and Fees; Final Rule and Notice

This final rule sets forth the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) standards adopted by the Postal Service to implement the Decision of the Governors of United States Postal Service on the Recommended Decision of the Postal Rate Commission on the Market Test of Mailing Online, Docket No. MC98-1. The Postal Service's Request to the Postal Rate Commission proposed, in part, that the Postal Service be permitted to establish new classifications and fees for Mailing Online on a market test basis. The market test is a limited one involving up to 5,000 customers, starting in the northeastern United States, that will provide a basis for subsequent nationwide experimental and permanent services. The experiment is also the subject of the current Postal Service Request. Mailing Online is a service that allows postal customers with access to a personal computer and the Internet to transmit electronic documents to a postal Web site for subsequent batching and transmission to a contract printer, who creates and enters the consequent physical mailpieces. Payment for postage and mailpiece preparation is made online via credit card.