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Express Mail® Open and Distribute

 

For your business.

Express Mail Open and Distribute expedites the transportation of bulk mailings by using Express Mail to quickly send the mailings to a destination delivery unit for processing. Because it has a special bar-coded label, you can use USPS.com to track the shipment.

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Express Mail - Commercial Base™
Express Mail - Commercial Plus™

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Commercial plus prices are available for new Express Mail
customers who have a customer commitment agreement with the USPS.

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Just prepare your mailing according to the standards for the enclosed class of mail, put it into a USPS-approved container, include the appropriate tag or label and bring it to a USPS® Network Distribution Center, Sectional Center Facility, or Destination Delivery Unit. Then, we base the postage price on the weight of its contents (excluding the tare weight of the external container) and regular Express Mail® distance-based prices, so you can move your mailings faster at a reasonable cost.

Create an Express Mail Open and Distribute Service address label in any of the following ways:

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Businesses qualify for this pricing by…

  • Printing a label with postage on USPS.com®.
  • Using an approved PC Postage provider.
  • Using a permit imprint when a postal routing barcode matching the destination ZIP Code is on the mailpiece. Flat-shaped mailpieces with permit imprints may bear a POSTNET or Intelligent Mail barcode instead of the postal routing barcode.
  • Express Mail Open and Distribute customers using permit imprint when a Service barcode containing a unique service type code 55 is on the address label.
  • Customers who pay postage using information-based indicia (IBI) postage meters in conjunction with an approved shipping label that bears a confirmation services barcode with a postal routing code.
  • Customers using USPS-approved IBI postage meters that print the IBI with the appropriate price marking ("Commercial Base Price," "Commercial Base Pricing," or "ComBasPrice") and who electronically transmit transactional data to the USPS and use an approved Express Mail shipping label.

Existing Express Mail customers qualify for this pricing by being…

  • Registered end-users of USPS-approved PC Postage products who qualify for commercial base prices and whose account volume exceeds 100,000 pieces in the previous calendar year or who have a customer commitment agreement with the USPS.
  • Permit imprint customers who qualify for commercial base prices and whose account volume exceeds 100,000 pieces in the previous calendar year or who have a customer commitment agreement with the USPS.
  • Express Mail Open and Distribute (EMOD) customers who qualify for commercial base prices and whose account volume exceeds 600 EMOD containers in the previous calendar year or who have a customer commitment agreement with the USPS.