96-26088. Experimental First-Class and Priority Mail Small Parcel Automation Rate Category; Prescribed ZIP Code Areas

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 199 (Friday, October 11, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 53322-53323]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26088]


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POSTAL SERVICE

39 CFR Part 111


Experimental First-Class and Priority Mail Small Parcel 
Automation Rate Category; Prescribed ZIP Code Areas

AGENCY: Postal Service.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: On April 18, 1996, the Postal Service published a final rule 
in the Federal Register (61 FR 17206-17215) and adopted amendments to 
the Domestic Mail Manual implementing the Decision of the Governors of 
the United States Postal Service on the Recommended Decision of the 
Postal Rate Commission on the Experimental First-Class and Priority 
Mail Small Parcel Automation Rate Category, Docket No. MC96-1. Since 
that time, certain aspects of the original Domestic Mail Manual 
amendments dealing with prescribed ZIP Code areas for the test have 
been affected by ZIP Code realignments that this rule change 
accommodates.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:   Paul H. Lettmann, [phone], or 
Susan Duchek, [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This change is necessitated by a realignment 
and redesignation of certain ZIP Codes in southwest Florida that took 
effect on July 1, 1996. Previously, the area of eligibility in Florida 
comprised 3-digit ZIP Code area 337 and the following 5-digit ZIP 
Codes: 33504 (redesignated as 33744), 34634 (redesignated as 33786), 
34635 (redesignated as 33785), 34640-34649 (redesignated as 33770-
33779), and 34664-34666 (redesignated as 33780-33782). The area of 
eligibility originally delineated for the test has therefore been 
neither expanded nor

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contracted on account of these redesignations.
    Accordingly, section G091.1.4 of the Domestic Mail Manual is 
amended to indicate that qualifying parcels claimed at the experimental 
automation rates for First-Class Mail and Priority Mail must be entered 
at a post office for which outgoing primary distribution is performed 
at the St. Petersburg, FL, Processing & Distribution Center (P&DC) (ZIP 
Code area 337).

List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111

    Postal Service.

    For the reasons discussed above, the Postal Service hereby adopts 
the following amendments to the Domestic Mail Manual, which is 
incorporated by reference in the Code of Federal Regulations (see 39 
CFR part 111).

PART 111--[AMENDED]

    1. The authority citation for 39 CFR part 111 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 39 U.S.C 101, 401, 403, 404, 3001-
3011, 3201-3219, 3403-3406, 3621, 3626, 5001.

    2. Revise G091.1.4 of the Domestic Mail Manual as set forth below:

G  General Information

* * * * *
G090  Experimental Classifications and Rates
G091  Barcoded Small Parcels

1.0  Basic Eligibility

* * * * *

1.4  Test Sites

    As specified in the authorization letter, mail prepared under G091 
must be entered at a post office for which outgoing primary 
distribution is performed as follows:
    a. For Priority Mail, at either the St. Petersburg, FL, Processing 
and Distribution Center (P&DC) (3-digit ZIP Code area 337) or the 
Philadelphia, PA, Airport Mail Center (3-digit ZIP Code areas 080-084, 
189-194, and 197-199).
    b. For First-Class Mail, at either the St. Petersburg, FL, P&DC (3-
digit ZIP Code area 337) or the Southeastern, PA, P&DC (3-digit ZIP 
Code areas 189, 193, and 194).
Stanley F. Mires,
Chief Counsel, Legislative.
[FR Doc. 96-26088 Filed 10-10-96; 8:45 am]
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