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Express Mail Sunday/Holiday Delivery Premium

---
identifier: "/us/fr/E8-1775"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "Express Mail Sunday/Holiday Delivery Premium"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "E8-1775"
section_name: "Express Mail Sunday/Holiday Delivery Premium"
positive_law: false
currency: "2008-02-01"
last_updated: "2008-02-01"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Postal Service"
document_number: "E8-1775"
document_type: "rule"
publication_date: "2008-02-01"
agencies:
  - "Postal Service"
cfr_references:
  - "39 CFR Part 111"
fr_citation: "73 FR 6032"
fr_volume: 73
effective_date: "2008-03-03"
fr_action: "Final rule."
---

#  Express Mail Sunday/Holiday Delivery Premium

**AGENCY:**

Postal Service.

**ACTION:**

Final rule.

**SUMMARY:**

The Postal Service <sub>TM</sub> is revising Express Mail® service to reflect a premium of $12.50 in addition to current postage for guaranteed Sunday or holiday delivery of Express Mail pieces.

**DATES:**

*Effective Date:* March 3, 2008.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Bert Olsen, 202-268-7276.

We adopt the following amendments to *Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,* Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), incorporated by reference in the *Code of Federal Regulations.* See 39 CFR 111.1.

**List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 111**

Administrative practice and procedure, Postal Service.

**39 CFR Part 111**

Accordingly, 39 CFR part 111 is amended as follows:

**PART 111—[AMENDED]**

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

**Authority:**

5 U.S.C. 552(a); 39 U.S.C. 101, 401, 403, 404, 414, 416, 3001-3011, 3201-3219, 3403-3406, 3626, 3632, 3633, 5001.

**39 CFR Part 111**

2. Revise the following sections of *Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,* Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), as follows:

**100 Retail Letters, Cards, Flats, and Parcels**

**110 Express Mail**

**113 Rates and Eligibility**

**Exhibit 1.3 Express Mail Rates—Same Day Airport Service Suspended**

*[Add an additional footnote, number 3, to Exhibit 1.3, Express Mail Rate Chart, as follows:]*

3. For Sunday/holiday delivery, add $12.50.

*[Renumber current 1.5 through 1.7 as new 1.6 through 1.8, and add new 1.5 as follows:]*

**1.5 Sunday and Holiday Premium**

When delivery is guaranteed for a Sunday or holiday, there is a premium of $12.50, unless paying via an Express Mail Manifesting Agreement. Customers not desiring delivery on a Sunday or a holiday may avoid the premium by opting for guaranteed delivery on the subsequent delivery day.

**700 Special Standards**

**705 Advanced Preparation and Special Postage Payment Systems**

**2.0 Manifest Mailing System**

**2.6 Express Mail Manifesting Agreements**

**2.6.3 Service Guarantee**

*[Revise current text to be identified as item b and add a new a as follows:]*

a. Mailers using Express Mail Manifesting (EMM) receive Sunday/holiday guaranteed delivery at no additional charge without paying a premium.

Neva R. Watson,

Attorney, Legislative.