# 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.