Periodicals Eligibility

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Periodicals Eligibility
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Agenda

• Basic Periodical Standards
• Characteristics
• Types of Authorizations
• Application Process
• In-County Subclass

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History

• Mail Classification Act enacted in 1879
  established mail classes, including Second-Class
  Mail
• Four basic elements to qualify
• Published in serial format
• Established minimum frequency
• Office of Publication located in United States
• Composed of printed sheets
• Mailing Standards DMM 707

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Periodicals

• Transmission of information
• Original or reprinted articles
• Listings
• Pictures
• Illustrations
• Graphs
• Advertising and non-advertising
• Cartoons comic strips
• Legal notices, Etc.

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Subclasses

• Outside-county subclass
• Regular
• Nonprofit
• Classroom
• In-county subclass

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Frequency

• Must publish at least 4 x a year
• Must show number of issues to be printed each
  year and at which intervals
• Must be specifically stated
• Acceptable examples
• Monthly Weekly Quarterly Four times a
  year in January, February, October and
  November
• Unacceptable examples
• 6 times a year

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Known Office of Publication

• A physical address in the U.S.
• Business conducted during normal business hours
• Supporting circulation records kept there, or
  made available for review

10 Main Street Anytown, VA 20147
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Bound
Unbound
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Characteristics

• Unbound Publications
• Loose sheets, nested within each other to form
  pages or have a single staple to hold them
  together
• May consist of a single sheet
• Generally newspapers and newsletters

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Characteristics

• Bound Publications
• Held together by glue or two or more staples
• Generally magazines and technical publications

SNORKELING Magazine

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Printed Sheets

• Pages may be
• Detachable (e.g., coupons, applications, order
  forms)
• Multilayered (e.g., glued together, unusual
  shapes, pop-up, pouches, pockets, holograms)
• Oversized (e.g., maps, posters, charts)
• Constructed using minor amounts of string, rubber
  bands, similar materials

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Content Restrictions

• Loose Enclosures (Bound Publications)
• Supplements (Bound Publications)
• Prohibited Matter
• Separate Price
• Catalogs
• Permit Imprints
• ISBN, ISSN, or Other USPS Number
• Products

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Ride-Along

• Definition A Single Piece that otherwise
  qualifies as Standard Mail mailed with a
  Periodicals publication for 0.131

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Authorization Categories

• General (paid circulation)
• Requester (can be both paid or requested)
• Publications of institution and societies
• Publications of a State Department of Agriculture
• Foreign

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General Publications (PAID)

• List of paid subscribers
• 50 or more are paid for above nominal rate
• No more than 75 advertising in more than 1/2 the
  issues during any 12-month period

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Nominal Rate

• Copies sold for less than 1/2 the publishers
  stated basic subscription rate
• Subscription price does not cover the cost to
  produce the publication
• Premium offers

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Requester Publications Free or Paid

• At least 24 pages
• No more than 75 ads in any issue
• Not entitled to any preferred rate, including
  In-county

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Requester PublicationsCirculation Standards

• 50 requesters or persons who have requested or
  paid
• Request valid for 3 years
• Must include signature date
• Not valid if induced by premium
• Telemarketing Internet request verified via
  Form 3845, publishers letter, or independent
  audit bureau

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Advertising Standards

• House Organs
• Owned or controlled by individuals or a business
• Conducted as an auxiliary for the advancement of
  other businesses of those who own or control the
  publication

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Publications of Institutions Societies

• Institute of learning
• Benevolent or fraternal society
• Trade union
• Professional society
• Literary society
• Historical society
• Scientific society
• Religious organizations

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Publications of Institutions Societies

• Not authorized to carry advertising
• All circulated copies are considered subscriber
  copies
• No circulation records required
• No circulation audit performed

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Other Types of Publications

• Publication of State Department of Agriculture
• Foreign publications

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Foreign Publications

• Must have the same general characteristics as
  domestic publications
• Review of applications is based only on U.S.
  circulation
• The Known Office of Publication may be the
  publishers agent

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Identification Statement

• Shown Conspicuously in one of the specified
  locations
• Title (ISSN or USPS)
• Volume/Issue number and issue date
• Known Office of Publication
• Frequency
• Periodicals imprint
• POSTMASTER Send address changes

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Identification Statement
THE DAILY TIMES (ISSN 7132-698x) is published
daily except Sundays and Mondays for 28 per
year by Wright News Co., 123 Maine Ave.,
Washington DC 20004-0001. Periodicals
postage paid at Washington, DC. and
additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER
Send address changes to THE DAILY TIMES, PO Box
4, Chicago, IL 60607-3385.
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Marked Copies

• Must submit Marked copies of each issue showing
  what is advertising vs. non-advertising
• At the Original Entry Post Office, or
• At the Additional Entry Post Office

Publisher Must Also File a Copy of Each Issue
with the Postmaster at the Original Entry Office
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Statement of Ownership

• File annual Statement of Ownership, management,
  and circulation as of October 1
• General requesters must print Statement of
  Ownership information in specified issue
• Issued more frequently than weekly by October
  10
• Issued weekly or less frequently, but more
  frequently than monthly by Oct 31
• In the first issue produced after October 1 for
  all other publications

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Statement of Ownership
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Periodicals

• Application for Periodicals Mailing Privileges
• New PS Form 3500, November 2001
• Used for all types of publications
• Handbook DM-204 Web access

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PS Form 3510

• Additional Entry
• Action
• Open (add)
• Close (cancel)
• Modify
• Only required where mail Is submitted for
  verification

• Re-entry
• Frequency
• of Issues
• Title
• KOP
• Authorization
• Rates

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Fees

• Original application 395
• Additional entry 65
• Re-entry 45
• Modify/Cancellation 45
• No fee is only change is to request a preferred
  rate.

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Pending Publications

• Mail prepared As Periodicals
• Submit PS Forms 3602 3541
• Pay higher Standard postage
• Receive Periodicals service
• When approved, difference in postage is refunded

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In-County Rates

• In-county rates apply to subscriber copies of any
  issue mailed within a county destinating to
  addresses within the same county If
• The total paid circulation Is less than 10,000
  copies, or
• The number of paid copies of such issues equals
  more than 50 of the total paid circulation of
  the issue

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10 Nonsubscriber Rule

• 10 limit of nonsubscribers
• During a calendar year, the total number of
  nonsubscriber copies mailed at preferred rates
  may not exceed 10 of the number of subscriber
  copies mailed at preferred rates
• The allowance for nonsubscriber copies mailed at
  preferred rates is the 10 allowed with preferred
  or the overall 10 limit, whichever occurs first

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Outside-County
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Outside-County(Piece Rate Discount)
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In-County(Piece Rate Discount)
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Foreign
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Periodicals Eligibility
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