# 2025-11108: USPS Mail Discounts Get a Regulatory Tune-Up

2025-11108, Streamlined Negotiated Service Agreement Review and New Postal Product, is a Federal Register notice from Postal Regulatory Commission published 2025-06-17, effective Comments are due: July 11, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-03).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11108
- As of: 2026-11-03
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11108
- Title: Streamlined Negotiated Service Agreement Review and New Postal Product
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Postal Regulatory Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 25650
- Published: 2025-06-17
- Effective: Comments are due: July 11, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-03

## In one line

USPS Mail Discounts Get a Regulatory Tune-Up

## Summary

The Postal Service is shaking things up with new changes to First-Class Mail, USPS Marketing Mail, and Periodicals. These changes will tweak discounts—some will be updated, some removed, and some brand new ones added. If you use or work with these mail services, get ready to weigh in by July 11, 2025, because these updates could affect your mailing costs and options.

## Abstract

The Commission is acknowledging a recent Postal Service filing concerning material changes to Mail Classification Schedule product descriptions within First-Class Mail, USPS Marketing Mail, and Periodicals. This document invites public comment on the advance review portion of the Postal Service's filing and takes other administrative steps.

## Effects PRIA read

- Zoned pricing for USPS Marketing Mail: mixed, medium. The Postal Service filed on June 11, 2025 a proposal to introduce zoned pricing for presorted USPS Marketing Mail letters, flats, and parcels entered at origin for all USPS Marketing Mail products except Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM)–Retail. This change would alter how much some mailers pay dependi…
- Periodicals aligned with Marketing Mail pricing: mixed, medium. The Postal Service proposes to align Outside-County Periodicals prices with USPS Marketing Mail by introducing zoned prices for mail entered at origin, eliminating bundle and container prices, and creating simplified container discounts. This proposal was filed June 11, 2025 and is open for comment…
- Eliminate ADC presort rates; relabel sort levels: mixed, medium. The Postal Service proposes to eliminate area distribution center (ADC) presort rates for First‑Class Mail, USPS Marketing Mail, and Periodicals and to relabel rate table categories by substituting terms like "3-Digit" for "ADC," "AADC," and "SCF," and "Mixed" for "Mixed ADC" and "Mixed AADC." The…
- Remove NDC presort discounts for Marketing Mail Parcels: mixed, medium. Because the Postal Service no longer intends to process mail in network distribution centers (NDCs), it proposes to eliminate presort discounts for USPS Marketing Mail Parcels entered at the NDC and to replace the NDC presort benchmark with the next less fine level of sortation. The Postal Service…
- Workshare discount benchmarks revised across classes: mixed, medium. The Postal Service states that its proposed MCS and analytic changes will change workshare discounts for First‑Class Mail, USPS Marketing Mail, and Periodicals by changing benchmarks for some discounts, eliminating others, and creating new workshare discounts. The Postal Service filed these proposa…

## Related documents

- [2025-10758](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10758): System for Regulating Rates and Classes for Market Dominant Products, 2025-06-13
- [2025-03042](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-03042): Market Dominant Postal Products, 2025-02-26
- [2026-22409](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-22409): New Postal Products, 2026-11-03
- [2026-22086](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-22086): New Postal Products, 2026-10-29
- [2026-21971](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-21971): New Postal Products, 2026-10-28
- [2026-21620](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-21620): New Postal Products, 2026-10-22

## Sources
- [2025-11108 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/17/2025-11108/streamlined-negotiated-service-agreement-review-and-new-postal-product)
- [2025-11108 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-17/pdf/2025-11108.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11108 (as of 2026-11-03).