Full Service or Basic?

Contains all the supplemental information needed to succeed with the Intelligent Mail barcode including:

Basic Intelligent Mail Benefits:

Address Correction
- Automated address correction notification at no charge
- Receipt of address correction information is optional for Full Service
- Address correction information must be used to update address records
- Ancillary Service Endorsements may be required
- Offers change of address information or reason for non-delivery (NIXIE)
Start-the-Clock
- Provided to Mail Owner and Mail Preparer
- Available after the mail has been verified and accepted by USPS®
- Reflects when mail was inducted into Postal Service™ mail processing
Beginning January 2011, qualifying Intelligent Mail Full Service mailpieces receive the following discounts:
- $0.003 per qualifying mailpiece ($3.00 per thousand) for:
  - First-Class Mail automation letters
  - First-Class Mail automation flats
- $0.001 per qualifying mailpiece ($1.00 per thousand) for:
  - Standard Mail automation letters
  - Standard Mail automation flats
  - Standard Mail ECR flats
  - Periodicals automation letters
  - Periodicals automation flats
  - Periodicals carrier route letters
  - Periodicals carrier route flats
  - Bound Printed Matter automation flats
  - Bound Printed Matter carrier route flats
These discounts are applied on the mailpiece level. If, for example, the job had 100,000 pieces and only 50,000 qualified as Full Service, only 50,000 would receive a discount. The amount would be $150.00 ($0.003*50,000) for First-Class Mail, $50.00 ($0.001 * 50,000) otherwise.

	Basic	Full Service
IM™ BC on mailpiece	Required	Required
IM tray barcode on labels	Optional	Required
IM container barcode on placards	Optional	Required
Electronic Docs	Optional	Required
Start-the-Clock	NA	Available
Address Correction	NA	Available

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Part 2: The IMb Roadmap