Description

This course provides training in the administration, acceptance, and verification of periodicals mailing. Topics include: • Basic mail piece elements and authorization categories • Advertising • Statements of ownership • Publisher records • Eligibility reviews • Mail piece construction, preparation and sortation standards • Documentation

Learning Outcome

 Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Identify the elements that a publication must meet to qualify for periodicals eligibility .
• Identify periodicals authorization categories and the elements of each category.
• Identify the requirements that must be met as a mailer to qualify for a category; including: how to apply for periodicals mailing privileges and how to identify which records are needed to substantiate the application.
• Identify Outside-Country and non-profit rate eligibility, how to file for additional entry and reentry, and how to complete a PS Form 3510.
• Identify requirements relevant to the physical characteristics of periodicals mailings, advertising when they see it in a publication, and how to compute the percentage of advertising in a publication.
• Correctly complete the Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation (form 3526), and learn to conduct an exceptional dispatch review.
• Generate reports of periodicals from the Permit System, identify discrepancies in the reports, discuss the history of periodicals, and use a checklist to verify a periodicals mailing.
• Identify the differences in verification procedures between standard mail, first class and periodicals, verify the contents of an Identification Statement, and recognize the characteristics of bound and unbound publications.
• Determine the mailability of periodical mail that includes supplements.
• Identify the differences in preparation between periodical mail, standard mail, first class mail, and foreign periodicals mail.

Target Audience

Open to anyone.

Course Completion Requirements

Passing this course requires the participant to: attend all training days and participate in all required tasks.

Pre-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this course.