Certainly, it doesn’t make sense to continue a prepaid mailer with the incorrect postage amount.īut unlike the game board box, the flat rate prepaid envelope mailer is being replaced with a version that includes a forever stamp. Using that mailer now requires shippers to add additional postage to that prepaid envelope to match today’s rate for mailer.

That prepaid envelope mailer retirement seemed to coincide with price increases that went into effect on January 9. Just yesterday we posted that the USPS Priority Mail Prepaid Flat Rate Stamped Envelopes are discontinued and no longer available on The Postal Store.

Other USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate Retirements However, this was not a common item stocked by most locations.Įven after USPS runs out, the Priority Mail Flat Rate Large Board Game Box will continue to be eligible for flat rate pricing and shippers can continue using it until they run of the box. Shippers that use this box can also check with their local USPS retail locations for any remaining stock. The Postal Service expects inventory to be fully depleted by the end of January on its online portal. The Priority Mail Flat Rate Large Board Game Box will continue to be available on the USPS-operated The Postal Store until supplies run out. USPS said the factors in the decision to retire this box included the “inability to run this product on package processing equipment, costs associated with manually processing this product, and reduced customer usage in recent years.” USPS decided after a Return on Investment (ROI) analysis that it is “in the best interest of the Postal Service” to discontinue the production of the box.

The mailer was originally introduced in 2010 as a convenience to the board game industry.

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