The Postal Service has posted several important notices of their plans for next year’s pricing and product changes. These come in response to suggestions by customers that USPS provide more advance notification of coming pricing and product changes. They also are a product of the new Pricing & Costing and Product Management organizations within the USPS. In any case, this type of advance transparency is best for everyone involved, and we appreciate it.

There is time for adjustments to these proposals in response to customer feedback. Please send your feedback directly to USPS as soon as possible to: productclassification@usps.gov.

• January 2017 Proposed Structural Changes
• Postage Statement – January 2017 Proposed Changes
• FSS Crosswalk – January 2017 Proposed Changes
• Publication 199:  Intelligent Mail Package Barcode – January 2017 Proposed Changes
• Publication 205:  Electronic Verification System (eVS) Business and Technical Guide – January 2017 Proposed Changes
• IDEAlliance and Mail.dat and Mail.SML Version Supported by the Postal Service
• Structural Change Requests for Idealliance Mail.dat and Mail.XML