Understanding Postal: Beyond Rising Postal Rates

Further Distinctions

To make matters even more difficult to discern, the USPS is proposing to make a further distinction between mail that it would consider NFM flats (“hybrid flats”) and NFM parcels (“hybrid parcels”). The only reason for making such a distinction is to signal for flats and parcels at least one more evolution in classification that fully distinguishes the cost and processing differences inherent in flats and parcels; a decision, it says, that is being put off to another day simply to reduce “rate shock.”