Periodicals Professional

Description

This course provides training in the administration, acceptance, and verification of periodicals mailing. Topics include: • Basic mail piece elements and authorization categories • Advertising • Statements of ownership • Publisher records • Eligibility reviews • Mail piece construction, preparation and sortation standards • Documentation

Learning Outcome

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Identify the elements that a publication must meet to qualify for periodicals eligibility .
• Identify periodicals authorization categories and the elements of each category.
• Identify the requirements that must be met as a mailer to qualify for a category; including: how to apply for periodicals mailing privileges and how to identify which records are needed to substantiate the application.
• Identify Outside-Country and non-profit rate eligibility, how to file for additional entry and reentry, and how to complete a PS Form 3510.
• Identify requirements relevant to the physical characteristics of periodicals mailings, advertising when they see it in a publication, and how to compute the percentage of advertising in a publication.
• Correctly complete the Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation (form 3526), and learn to conduct an exceptional dispatch review.
• Generate reports of periodicals from the Permit System, identify discrepancies in the reports, discuss the history of periodicals, and use a checklist to verify a periodicals mailing.
• Identify the differences in verification procedures between standard mail, first class and periodicals, verify the contents of an Identification Statement, and recognize the characteristics of bound and unbound publications.
• Determine the mailability of periodical mail that includes supplements.
• Identify the differences in preparation between periodical mail, standard mail, first class mail, and foreign periodicals mail.

Target Audience

• Open to anyone.

Course Completion Requirements

Pre-requisites