# Postal Service 11 documents across 7 days of the archive, 2 of them final rules. The five most recent days are below. [HTML](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/postal-service/) · [the long-form archive](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/postal-service/archive.md) · [the daily issue](https://downstream.sh/daily/index.md) ## Dates this agency has set that have not yet arrived | Date | Offset | What | Document | Agency | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-04 | +30d | Takes effect | [Change in Rates of General Applicability for Competitive Products](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/28/2026-17640/change-in-rates-of-general-applicability-for-competitive-products) | Postal Service | | 2026-10-04 | +30d | Takes effect | [Free Matter for the Blind and Other Physically Handicapped Persons](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/01/2026-17884/free-matter-for-the-blind-and-other-physically-handicapped-persons) | Postal Service | ## 3 September 2026 — 1 document [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-09-03.md) > The Postal Service filed a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to remove International Reply Coupon Service from the Market Dominant List. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/postal-service/#s-2026-09-03 *Machine-written by `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` from the documents below.* ### International Product Change-Removal of International Reply Coupon Service *Notice* — Postal Service The Postal Service gives notice of the filing of a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to remove International Reply Coupon Service from the Market Dominant List and to make accompanying classification changes in the Mail Classification Schedule. 91 FR 56678 · FR Doc. 2026-18045 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-03/pdf/2026-18045.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/03/2026-18045/international-product-change-removal-of-international-reply-coupon-service) ## 2 September 2026 — 2 documents [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-09-02.md) > The Postal Service published notices of requests to add international and domestic shipping service agreements to its Competitive Product List. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/postal-service/#s-2026-09-02 *Machine-written by `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` from the documents below.* ### International Product Change-Priority Mail Express International, Priority Mail International & First-Class Package International Service Agreements *Notice* — Postal Service The Postal Service gives notice of filing requests with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add certain Priority Mail Express International, Priority Mail International & First-Class Package International Service contracts to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Competitive Product List in the Mail Classification Schedule. 91 FR 56485 · FR Doc. 2026-17958 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-02/pdf/2026-17958.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/02/2026-17958/international-product-change-priority-mail-express-international-priority-mail-international-and) ### Product Change-Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, and USPS Ground Advantage Negotiated Service Agreements; Priority Mail, and USPS Ground Advantage Negotiated Service Agreements *Notice* — Postal Service The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List. 91 FR 56485 · FR Doc. 2026-17921 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-02/pdf/2026-17921.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/02/2026-17921/product-change-priority-mail-express-priority-mail-and-usps-ground-advantage-negotiated-service) ## 1 September 2026 — 2 documents [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-09-01.md) ### Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records *Notice* — Postal Service The United States Postal Service (USPS) is responding to public comments regarding the creation of a new General Privacy Act System of Records (SOR) USPS 820.225, Federal Ballot Mail. The new SOR coincides with the Postal Service's publication of the Final Rule amending the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), regarding the transmission of mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections. The Postal Service created the SOR to maintain a list of individuals, each individual's address, the unique Intelligent Mail barcodes printed on each individual's outbound and return ballot envelope for a federal election, and the state or political subdivision thereof that issued such ballot for inclusion on a state's Mail-in and Absentee Participation List, as required by the new DMM section. There will be no changes to the new system of records in light of public comments received. 91 FR 56368 · FR Doc. 2026-17986 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-01/pdf/2026-17986.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/01/2026-17986/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records) ### Free Matter for the Blind and Other Physically Handicapped Persons *Rule* — Postal Service The Postal Service is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM[supreg]) to clarify the applicability of the Hazmat Handling Fee, and to require a parcel barcode, on parcels mailed as Free Matter for the Blind and Other Physically Handicapped Persons (Free Matter). - **Takes effect** 4 October 2026 (in 30 days) 91 FR 56052 · FR Doc. 2026-17884 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-01/pdf/2026-17884.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/01/2026-17884/free-matter-for-the-blind-and-other-physically-handicapped-persons) ## 28 August 2026 — 1 document [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-08-28.md) > The Postal Service published a notice of rate changes for competitive products effective October 4, 2026. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/postal-service/#s-2026-08-28 *Machine-written by `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` from the documents below.* ### Change in Rates of General Applicability for Competitive Products *Notice* — Postal Service This notice sets forth time-limited changes in rates of general applicability for competitive products. - **Takes effect** 4 October 2026 (in 30 days) 91 FR 55636 · FR Doc. 2026-17640 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-28/pdf/2026-17640.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/28/2026-17640/change-in-rates-of-general-applicability-for-competitive-products) ## 26 August 2026 — 3 documents [the whole issue for this day](https://downstream.sh/daily/2026-08-26.md) > The Postal Service published two notices on international mail services and Sunshine Act meetings, and a rule amending mailing standards for federal election ballots effective August 21, 2026. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/postal-service/#s-2026-08-26 *Machine-written by `claude-haiku-4-5-20251001` from the documents below.* ### Sunshine Act Meetings *Notice* — Postal Service 91 FR 55130 · FR Doc. 2026-17407 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-26/pdf/2026-17407.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/26/2026-17407/sunshine-act-meetings) ### International Product Change-Priority Mail Express International, Priority Mail International & First-Class Package International Service Agreement *Notice* — Postal Service The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a Priority Mail Express International, Priority Mail International & First-Class Package International Service contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Competitive Product List in the Mail Classification Schedule. 91 FR 55129 · FR Doc. 2026-17355 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-26/pdf/2026-17355.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/26/2026-17355/international-product-change-priority-mail-express-international-priority-mail-international-and) ### Ballot Mail for Federal Elections *Rule* — Postal Service The Postal Service is amending the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual, regarding the transmission of mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections pursuant to its rulemaking authority. - **Takes effect** 21 August 2026 (14 days ago) 91 FR 54966 · FR Doc. 2026-17238 · [official PDF](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-26/pdf/2026-17238.pdf) · [federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/26/2026-17238/ballot-mail-for-federal-elections) ## Earlier 2 further days are in the [long-form archive](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/postal-service/archive.md). ## Ask an assistant instead Everything on this page is also a tool call. Add `mcp.downstream.sh` as an MCP server — no key, no account — then paste this: ``` Using the Downstream MCP server at mcp.downstream.sh, call whats_new_since with agency "Postal Service" since 2026-08-26, then summarise what changed and list every deadline it created. ``` Reaches `whats_new_since`. The response carries its own citations and states what it is missing, including which dates it has no record for. --- Every document linked here is a work of the United States government and in the public domain. The Federal Register's HTML and XML renderings are unofficial; the PDF on each item is the official text, and that is the one to cite. Counts are arithmetic over published fields, dates are printed as filed, and titles are verbatim. Where we have nothing, this says nothing rather than estimating. The one-sentence agency summaries are machine-written from those same fields and are labelled where they appear. 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