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Office Time -- Preparation

 

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Point Sequence environment where customer removals may first be identified while performing street duties, they must be withdrawn and returned to the office for processing).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.
             

          • 241.312 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.
             
          • 241.313 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).
             
        • 241.32 Duration
           
          • 241.321 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.
             
          • 241.322 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.
             
    • 242 Procedures by Category
       
      • 242.1 Letter-Type Mail
         
        • 242.11 Casing
           
          • 242.111 Case removals to appropriate separation by size and type. Separations are COA's entry mail, machinable, and non-machinable.
             
          • 242.112 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
               

        • 242.12 Bundling CFS Mail
           
          • 242.121 Withdraw mail in the separations.
             
          • 242.122 Deposit in designated location by exit for transport to CFS.