Highway Contract Routes — Contract Delivery Service - USPS.com
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35 <strong>Highway</strong> <strong>Contract</strong> <strong>Routes</strong> <strong>—</strong> <strong>Contract</strong> <strong>Delivery</strong> <strong>Service</strong><br />
35 Collection and Disposition<br />
351 General<br />
351.1 Collection Procedure<br />
The supplier will collect any properly stamped First-Class Mail ® from<br />
mailboxes placed along the line of the route when the box signal flag is up<br />
indicating that the box contains mail for collection. Customers may present<br />
items such as click-n-ship for which postage has been pre-paid. These items<br />
are to be collected and returned to the Post Office. Other classes of mail<br />
(single-rate pieces) will be collected provided the customer meets the<br />
supplier and provides the supplier with sufficient funds to cover the mailing.<br />
The article will be taken to the next Post Office for mailing, and any excess<br />
money will be returned to the customer on the next trip.<br />
Mailpieces weighing more than 13 ounces, bearing only postage stamps as<br />
postage that are found in unattended locations such as on counters and<br />
docks; in lobbies, lobby drops, and collection receptacles; and at postal<br />
facility side doors should be isolated, placarded as anonymous mail, and<br />
deposited in the designated anonymous mail container(s) at the Anonymous<br />
Mail Unit upon return to the postal facility.<br />
Mailpieces weighing more than 13 ounces, bearing only postage stamps as<br />
postage from business or residential customers may not be accepted.<br />
Customers should be advised to take these items to an employee at a retail<br />
service counter at a Post Office for proper acceptance.<br />
Mailpieces weighing more than 13 ounces, bearing only postage stamps as<br />
postage left for collection at a customer’s mailbox or a business’s outgoing<br />
mail collection point should not be collected. Decal DDD2 should be applied<br />
over the destination address, city, state, and ZIP, leaving the addressee’s<br />
name visible and the piece should be returned to the customer’s mailbox or<br />
the business’s outgoing mail collection point.<br />
Mailpieces weighing more than 13 ounces without postage and with<br />
sufficient funds to cover postage are acceptable for collection as long as the<br />
return address matches the address at the point of pickup and the customer/<br />
business is known to reside or do business at that location.<br />
The CDS supplier must isolate this mail and take it to an employee at the<br />
retail service counter upon return to the Post Office.<br />
351.2 Affixing Postage<br />
During the month of December, a supplier is not required to affix stamps to<br />
letter mail and greeting cards placed in a customer’s box for collection.<br />
During the remainder of the year, he or she should make every effort to urge<br />
all customers to affix stamps to letter mail. The supplier is not required to<br />
affix stamps to more than five pieces of letter-size mail from a box. If a<br />
customer continually leaves an unreasonable number of articles in the box<br />
requiring the supplier to affix postage, this should be reported to the<br />
Administrative Official or designee for corrective action.<br />
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