Nonprofit Standard Mail - Authorized nonprofit organizations
are eligible for additional savings.
Nonprofit organizations and businesses use Standard Mail® the
same way. The only difference is that authorized nonprofit
organizations are eligible for additional savings on Standard
Mail. Eligibility to use nonprofit rates is based both on the
eligibility of the organization and the content of the mail
piece as established by federal statues. Authorized Nonprofit
organizations can use Standard Mail or Enhanced Carrier Route
mail.
Eligible Organizations - Simply being an IRS-approved nonprofit
organization does not qualify an organization for these rates.
Typically, there are 10 categories of organizations that may be
eligible.
Organizations eligible for nonprofit rates include:
Agricultural
Educational
Fraternal
Labor
Philanthropic
Religious
Scientific
Veterans
Voter Registration Officials
National and State Political Parties
Note - Nonprofit postage prices are available only
for domestic mail, not for international mail. Please review
Publication 417, Nonprofit Standard Mail Eligibility,
or get advice from your local business mail entry unit personnel
while you are designing your nonprofit material, especially if
your mail piece contains any advertising.
To learn more about Standard Mail nonprofit prices, click
below.
Nonprofits, Charities and the Cooperative Mail Rule (CMR)
The Cooperative Mail Rule (CMR) allows one or more authorized
nonprofit organizations to share the cost, risk, or benefit of a
mailing and mail at Nonprofit Standard Mail® rates. Cooperative
mailings are entered at Nonprofit Standard Mail rates only if
all cooperating nonprofits are authorized to mail at that rate.
The CMR does not allow nonprofits to share the cost, risk or
benefit of a mailing with for-profit organizations and mail at
the Nonprofit Standard Mail rate unless the mailing is a
solicitation for monetary donations and only when the nonprofit
is provided with the list of donors and contact information (or
waives the provision of that information).
Eligibility to use nonprofit rates is based both on the
eligibility of the organization and the content of the mail
piece as established by federal statutes.
For more information read the following:
DMM 703 Nonprofit Standard
Mail and Other Unique Eligibility
Also, Nonprofit Enhanced Carrier Route Standard Mail allows
nonprofit organizations to save even more for bulk mailings
weighing less than 16 ounces. All you have to do is sort mail
pieces to the individual carrier routes within a 5-digit ZIP
Code™.
