![]() ![]() Customers who wish to have their mail forwarded for a longer period may submit an additional order to extend the forwarding period up to the maximum allowable twelve month period. Accordingly, the Postal Service is changing its standards to limit an initial temporary change of address order to a maximum of 6 months, or, if no time period is specified, will use 6 months as the end date. This would result in the unnecessary forwarding of mail and delay the receipt of correspondence by those customers. Therefore, the current policy that assigns a 12 month duration on temporary change of address orders that do not reflect an end date probably overstates the term desired by many customers. As previously stated, the majority of temporary filings last no more than six months. The Postal Service seeks to avoid the unnecessary or improper forwarding of mail. Maximum duration for an initial temporary order will change from twelve months to six months. Customers can ask that held mail be delivered upon their r eturn or request to pick up the mail at their post office. Accordingly, short-term forwarding orders may result in mail that is en route to the customer However, the time needed to process temporary change of address orders and begin delivery of forwarded p ieces to a temporary address may approach 14 days. Currently, the Postal Service has no minimum timeframe for providing temporary forwarding services. Minimum duration will change from one day to two weeks. The changes will be effective August 3, 2006. The changes, and the reasons underlying each, are explained below. The Postal Service is adopting two changes to the Domestic Mail Manual concerning temporary mail forwarding policies. ![]() This includes more than 14,000 that had a total duration to forward mail of only 1 day. The Postal Service also received more than 90,000 temporary changes of address orders where the duration was for a period of 14 days or less. ![]() The Postal Service received more than 509,000 temporary change-of-address orders in 2005 that did not specify when the forwarding period should end under current policy, the Postal Service treats these as orders to forward mail for a twelve month period after the start date. Approximately 62 percent of all temporary filings have a length of six months or less. Forwarding of mail based on temporary change of address orders is estimated to account for 11 percent of all f orwarded mail volume. *NOTE: Black and white (grayscale) images show the front of the outside of letter-sized envelopes and mailpieces that are processed through USPS ® automated equipment.8 percent of the approximate 46 million change-of-address orders received by the Postal Service each year. USPS carriers will leave your packages in your mailbox or at your preferred delivery location if they are too large to fit in your mailbox. Informed Delivery for personal accounts includes USPS Electronic Signature Online ® (USPS eSOL ®), a feature that allows you to digitally sign for incoming packages that require a signature including Priority Mail Express ®, Signature Confirmation ™, and those insured for $500 or more. From the Informed Delivery ® dashboard, you can also sign up for text or email notifications, schedule delivery alerts, request Redelivery, enter USPS Delivery Instructions ®, and more. Now both business and personal accounts can preview images* of mail and manage incoming packages on one dashboard without entering tracking numbers. ![]()
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