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1.0 Physical Standards for Letters

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1.1 Dimensional Standards for Letters

1. Not less than 5 inches long, 3-1/2 inches high, and 0.007-inch thick. For pieces more than 6 inches long or 4-1/4 inches high, the minimum thickness is 0.009. (Pieces not meeting the 0.009 thickness are subject to a nonmachinable surcharge under 1.2f).
2. Rectangular, with four square corners and parallel opposite sides. Letter-size, card-type mailpieces made of cardstock may have finished corners that do not exceed a radius of 0.125 inch (1/8 inch). See Exhibit 201.1.1.1.

1.2 Nonmachinable Criteria

A letter-size piece is nonmachinable if it has one or more of the following characteristics (see 601.1.1.2 to determine the length, height, top, and bottom of a mailpiece):

1. Contains items such as pens, pencils, keys, or coins that cause the thickness of the mailpiece to be uneven; or loose keys or coins or similar objects not affixed to the contents within the mailpiece. Loose items may cause a letter to be nonmailable when mailed in paper envelopes; (see 601.3.3).
2. Is a self-mailer that is not prepared according to 201.3.14.
3. Is a booklet that is not prepared according to 201.3.16.

2.0 Physical Standards for Flats

2.1 General Definition of Flat-Size Mail

1. More than 11-1/2 inches long, or more than 6-1/8 inches high, or more than 1/4 inch thick, except as allowed for EDDM-Retail flats under 140. For general retail mailability, all pieces 1/4 inch thick or less must be a minimum of 5 inches long and 3-1/2 inches high and 0.007 inch thick.
2. Flexible (see 2.3).
3. Rectangular with four square corners or with finished corners that do not exceed a radius of 0.125 inch (1/8 inch). See Exhibit 201.1.1.1.
4. Uniformly thick (see 2.4).

2.2 Length and Height of Flats

2.3 Minimum Flexibility Criteria for Flat-Size Pieces

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Flat-size pieces must be flexible. Boxes—with or without hinges, gaps, or breaks that allow the piece to bend—are not flats. Tight envelopes or wrappers that are filled with one or more boxes are not flats. At the customer‘s option, a customer may perform the following test on their own mailpieces. When a postal employee observes a customer demonstrating that a flat-size piece is flexible according to these standards, the employee does not need to perform the test. Test flats as defined in 201.4.3.

2.4 Uniform Thickness

Flat-size mailpieces must be uniformly thick so that any bumps, protrusions, or other irregularities do not cause more than 1/4-inch variance in thickness. When determining variance in thickness, exclude the outside edges of a mailpiece (1 inch from each edge) when the contents do not extend into those edges. Also, exclude the selvage of any polywrap covering (see 201.5.3 from this determination. Mailers must secure nonpaper contents to prevent shifting of more than 2 inches within the mailpiece if shifting would cause the piece to be nonuniform in thickness or would result in the contents bursting out of the mailpiece (see 601.3.3).

2.5 Ineligible Flat-Size Pieces

Flat-size mailpieces that do not meet the eligibility standards in 2.3 through 2.4 are considered parcels and must pay the applicable parcel prices.

3.0 Physical Standards for Parcels

3.1 Processing Categories

USPS categorizes parcels into one of three mail processing categories: machinable, irregular, or nonmachinable parcel. These categories are based on the physical dimensions of the piece, regardless of the placement (orientation) of the delivery address on the piece. For additional information on the machinable, irregular, and nonmachinable, processing categories see 201.7.0.

3.2 Maximum Weight and Size

All parcels must be large enough to hold the required delivery address, return address, mailing labels, postage, barcode, endorsements, and other mail markings on the address side of the parcel. For mailability, all pieces 1/4 inch thick or less must be a minimum of 5 inches in length, 3-1/2 inches in height, and 0.007 inch in thickness. No mailpiece may weigh more than 70 pounds or measure more than 108 inches in length and girth combined, except USPS Retail Ground, which may not measure more than 130 inches in length and girth combined. For parcels, length is the distance of the longest dimension and girth is the distance around the thickest part. Lower size or weight standards apply to mail addressed to some APOs and FPOs subject to 703.2.0 and 703.4.0 and for Department of State mail, subject to 703.3.0.

3.3 Two or More Packages

4.0 Additional Physical Standards for Priority Mail Express

5.0 Additional Physical Standards for Priority Mail

The maximum weight is 70 pounds. The combined length and girth of a piece (the length of its longest side plus the distance around its thickest part) may not exceed 108 inches. Lower size and weight standards apply for some APO/FPO and DPO mail subject to 703.2.0, and 703.4.0, and for Department of State mail subject to 703.3.0.

6.0 Additional Physical Standards for First-Class Mail and First-Class Package Service — Retail

6.1 Maximum Weight

6.2 Cards Claimed at Card Prices

6.2.1 Card Price

A card may be a single or double (reply) stamped card or a single or double postcard. Stamped cards are available from USPS with postage imprinted on them. Postcards are commercially available or privately printed mailing cards. To be eligible for card pricing, a card and each half of a double card must meet the physical standards in 6.2 and the applicable eligibility for the price claimed. Ineligible cards are subject to letter-size pricing.

6.2.2 Postcard Dimensions

6.2.3 Other Cards

A card that does not meet the applicable standards in 6.2 must not bear the words “Postcard” or “Double Postcard.”

6.2.4 Paper or Card Stock

6.2.5 Acceptable Attachments

1. A paper label, such as a wafer seal or decal affixed with permanent adhesive to the back side of the card, or within the message area on the address side (see Exhibit 202.2.1), or to the left of the address block.

6.2.6 Unacceptable Attachment

6.2.7 Tearing Guides

6.2.8 Address Side of Cards

The address side of a card is the side bearing the delivery address and postage. The address side may be formatted to contain a message area. Cards that do not contain a message area on the address side are subject to the applicable standards for the price claimed. For the purposes of 6.2, miscellaneous graphics or printing, such as symbols, logos, or characters, that appear on the address side of cards not containing a message area are generally acceptable provided the items are not intended to convey a message.

6.2.9 Double Cards

6.2.10 Enclosures

6.3 Nonmachinable Pieces

6.3.1 Nonmachinable Letters

Letter-size pieces (except card-size pieces) that meet one or more of the nonmachinable characteristics in 1.2 are subject to the nonmachinable surcharge (see 133.1.5).

6.3.2 Nonmachinable Flats

Flat-size pieces that do not meet the standards in 2.0 are considered parcels and the mailer must pay the applicable parcel price.

6.4 Parcels

1. A mailpiece that exceeds any one of the maximum dimensions for a flat (large envelope). See 2.1.
2. A flat-size mailpiece that is not uniformly thick under 2.4.

7.0 Additional Physical Standards for USPS Retail Ground

1. Lower size or weight standards apply to mail addressed to some APOs and FPOs subject to 703.2.0 and 703.4.0 and for Department of State mail, subject to 703.3.0.

8.0 Additional Physical Standards for Media Mail and Library Mail

1. Lower size or weight standards apply to mail addressed to certain APOs and FPOs, subject to 703.2.0 and 703.4.0 and for Department of State mail, subject to 703.3.0.

Topical Vocabulary

How much is a letter to .. ? What's the weight limit? I'd like to have a return receipt.

Types of mail

Postal services

delivery of letters / parcels

selling of postage stamps

payment of weekly pensions / license

wrapping and packing service

public / fax / E-mail / telephone service

Postal windows

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Ex.1 Read the text and tell the class about your last visit to the post-office. You wanted to pay rental services / to send a greeting telegram / some books / a parcel by post.

At the Post-office

The Post-office is a great service industry in Britain and one of the biggest employers in Europe. It employs about one in sixty of all workers in this country (17,000 staff). It's made up for four large businesses, Posts, Telecommunications, Giro, and Data Processing Services.

The post-office gives the services which customers require. Its main task is to deliver mail: newspapers, magazines, telegrams, parcels. Here you can also buy envelopes, stamps, postcards, pay communal services. At a post-office you can have some services similar to those available in banks known as the 'National Savings Bank'.

You can find post-office in every town and city, but there are numerous sub post-offices in suburbs and in smaller places. Sub post-offices are smaller and are often part of a general store, but they offer all the usual services.

Now let us pay a visit to a local post-office. There are many of windows with a notice in big letters showing the operation handled. The first one is marked 'Parcel Post', the next one is 'Money Orders'. Then there's one marked 'Post Restante' (Am. – 'General Delivery'). Going down the line you will see: 'Stamps', 'Post Cards', 'Stamped Envelopes', 'Registered Letters', 'Air Mail'. In some conspicuous places you will find a board with the postal rates. This will give you information about how many stamps are needed for inland and foreign letters, that is how much postage must be paid on those letters. Then somewhere near the entrance you will see a notice giving the hours of delivery. The windows marked 'Parcel Post' handles all parcels or packages. Don't forget to insure your parcel if you've got something really valuable in it. This cost to buy a trifle, but makes delivery double sure. The larger post-office even maintains a wrapping and packing service.

If you want to send printed matter (newspapers, magazines, books) you'll have to go to the window marked 'Book Post'.

Bad company blogspot. The 'Post Restante' window keeps mail until it is called for. The post-office maintains this service for those who prefer to pick up their mail in person.

If you are in a hurry to post a letter and have no stamps at the moment, that does not keep you from sending it. Just mark it 'Collect and the addressee pays the postage due'.

When sending a letter of particular value you should have it registered (with or without declared value). The advantage of this service is that registered letters are not left with the ordinary mail in the letter box, delivered personally (the addressee has to sign them). The sender is given a receipt at the post-office so he can always trace a letter. Of course, there will be a special charge.

The 'Money Orders' window needs almost no explanation. You may send money orders by mail or by telegram and whatever you do, don't lose the receipt.

Ex.2 Read these dialogues between a postal clerk and a customer.

1 – How much is postage for a picture postcard?

– Are you sending it in the United States?

– Yes, I am.

– It's fifteen cents.

2 – How much is postage to Europe?

– First class is forty-five cents a half ounce. We also have aerograms.

– No, I don't want aerograms. Here are my letters. I want to send them airmail.

3 – I want to send a letter to my aunt in Miami, Florida. What's the ZIP code?

– Don't know. Here's the directory.

– Thank you. Here it is. The ZIP code is 33143.

4 – I want to send a money order to my cousin in Mexico.

– What's his name?

– It's Luise Gonzalez.

– How much do you want to send?

– Two hundred dollars.

– OK, there's a fee of a dollar ten. It's $201.10.

– Fine. Here's the cash.

– Thank you. Sign here, please.

5 – Could you tell me how much this parcel to Germany is?

– I'll have to check/look up/make sure. Is there anything else?

– Yes. Half a dozen air mail labels and a roll of twenty-five cent stamps. I mayalso need a large registered envelope soon.

– That'll be 8.95 in all.

– Thank you. Here it's. Could you give me a 2 p. piece in the change? I want to make a phone call.

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Ex.3 Act as a postal clerk and a customer. The customer wants to:

1. to send a money order to a friend in Brest. 2. to send this package book rate. How much is it? 3. to mail a letter to Frankfurt, Germany. How can he/she know the ZIP code there? 4. to send a letter by registered mail. 5. to mail a picture postcard to Europe. How much is the postage?

Ex.4 Recommend an Englishman where it's better to go if he needs some postal services in Minsk and how to make arrangements with the local post-office to have his mail forwarded.

Ex.5 Practise short conversations based on the following statements.

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1 Stamps teach history and geography, art and technology.

2 Writing letters is a real art.

3 All means of communication through letter writing seem to be most reliable.

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Ex.6 Read the text and compare different ways mail is delivered in Great Britain with those in our country. Then rate different classes of mail and types of letters according to the degree of reliability.

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The post-office in Great Britain has different classes of mail. First class is for letters, personal mail, and packages. First class mail is a fast mail. Second class is for magazines. Third class is for advertisements, calendars, and other printed matter. Third class is for light packages, too. There is another class for books. Book rate is slow, but it's not expensive.

The post-office sends different types of letters. There are certified, registered, and special-delivery letters. The post-office sends a certified letter with regular mail. You receive proof of sending the letter. Registered mail is for valuable letters. The post-office insures delivery of letters. Special-delivery mail arrives quickly. The post-office delivers special-delivery letters before other mail.

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Ex.7 Read the text and say what new you have learned about the postal industry in Belarus.

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Post service in Minsk got its development after the treaty of 1667 between Russia and Poland. The Vilensk post was erected on the Moscow – Mozhaisk – Smolensk – Mogilev – Vilno route. Later in the first half of the 19^th century there emerged a passenger coach mail from Petersburg to Kiev and to the Radzivil's estate.

The first post-office in Minsk was founded in a brick four-storeyed building in Gubernatorskaya street (now Lenin street) where a sport store is situated nowa­days. The first mail boxes were enstalled in the most densely populated areas at Troitskaya Gora, at Krasnaya Gorka and another box was enstalled at the entrance of the post-office.

Being admitted to the service postmen had to give an oath or a written promise that they wouldn't participate in strikes. The women were admitted to the post-telegraph service in 1864 on condition they would never get married. In addition they were supposed to have secondary education and were obliged to know not less than two foreign languages (another demand was that they could speak not less than two foreign languages).