Coalition Urges USPS to Rethink How It Handles Catalogs, Magazines and Other Flat Mail

Because the Flats Sequencing System is not performing as anticipated, a mailers coalition is urging the Postal Service to rethink how it handles catalogs, magazines, and other flat mail.

More than one-third of the mail intended for Flats Sequencing System (FSS) is actually bypassing the machines, which are also experiencing a reject rate of up to 10 percent, the coalition noted in an “Industry Memo” last week to USPS officials.

USPS and industry together should revisit some of the most basic assumptions about flat mail, the memo from four major industry groups said.