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Office Time --
Preparation
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Handbook M-41, TL-4, 03-01-98
Update With Postal Bulletin Revisions
Through April 5, 2001
Delivery Point Sequence environment
where customer removals may first be
identified while performing street
duties, they must be withdrawn and
returned to the office for processing).
Use of a PS Form 3982 or a locally
developed policy to identify removals
while performing street duties will be
used.
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Form 3982 may be used for entering
special instructions such as building
vacant, temporary absence--hold, etc.
Enter temporary changes of address
in the same way, but include inclusive
dates. Hold mail held at carrier case
should be verified once each week to
insure that no mail designated by
mailer is kept beyond its retention
period. Such mail shall be endorsed,
Temporarily Away.
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After all appropriate mail has been
cased, withdraw from the separation(s)
the mail that has the same name and
address of all the pertinent entries
which have not been lined out. This
mail should be put in the designated
location for forwarding, and return all
mail for other customers into the
separation(s).
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Duration
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Address changes entered on Form 3982
are good for 90 days from the end
of the month in which the change
becomes effective; except temporary
changes are canceled when customer
returns or at the expiration of one year.
After deadlines, line out expired order
so that the change is still legible.
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Use only one Form 3982 for each row of
letter separations unless a large
number of removals warrant additional
cards such as for military, rooming
house, or apartment house areas. When
all spaces on Form 3982 have been
used, turn the form over to the markup
clerk who will retain it for reference
after adjustments.
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Letter-Type Mail
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Casing
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Case removals to appropriate separation
by size and type. Separations are
COA's entry mail, machinable, and
non-machinable.
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Case removals to proper separation for
mail pieces which are:
a.
Undeliverable As Addressed (forwarding
order expired)
b.
Attempted, Not Known
c.
No Such Number/No Such Street
d.
Other Carrier Endorsed
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Bundling CFS Mail
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Withdraw mail in the
separations.
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Deposit in designated location by exit
for transport to CFS.