Ps Form 3877 - Firm Mailing Book For Accountable Mail (Page 2 of 4) in pdf

Additional Instructions and Declaration of Value of Registered Mail

Senders of all domestic and international Registered Mail are required to declare

The following standards are furnished as guides in declaring the value of

the full value of articles presented for registration. Neither the Postal Service nor its

representative types of matter commonly sent as Registered Mail:

postal employees are authorized to waive this requirement or to permit or condone

any violation or evasion of it.

Kind of Mail Matter

Value to Be Declared

Registered Mail Articles:

a. Avoid listing Registered Mail articles on the same form with any other

Negotiable Instruments

Market value.

non-registered articles.

Instruments payable to bearer,

(All values are based

b. Affix red Label 200, Registered Mail, above the address and to the right of

including stock certificates

on the value at the

the return address. Commercial mailers generating IMpb shipping labels

endorsed in blank.

time of mailing.)

must use Label 200-N or USPS-approved facsimile in lieu of Label 200.

Nonnegotiable Instruments

No value, or replacement

c. Avoid using tapes that will not absorb postmarking ink to seal Registered

All registered bonds,

cost if postal insurance

Mail articles. See DMM 503.2.3.3.

warehouse receipts,

coverage is desired.

checks, drafts, deeds, wills,

(See Note below.)

For domestic articles, postal insurance is included in the fee for articles with a value

abstracts, and similar

of at least $0.01 up to a maximum insured value of $50,000. Postal insurance is

documents. Certificates of

not available for articles with no value ($0.00). The fees for articles valued over

stock are considered

$50,000 include insurance up to $50,000, and increasingly higher fees for handling

nonnegotiable so far as

costs. The full value of the article must be declared at the time of mailing, as shown

declaration of value is

in DMM 503.2.2.1, and the corresponding fee must be paid.

concerned unless they are

Indemnity for international Registered Mail (except to Canada) is extremely limited,

endorsed in blank.

and is set by the Universal Postal Union. See IMM 333.

Money

Full value.

The maximum indemnity is $50,000 for domestic Registered Mail.

Jewelry, Gems, Precious

Market value or cost.

Domestically the fees for articles valued over $50,000 include insurance up to

Metals

$50,000, and charges for handling costs. These charges do not increase the

Merchandise

Market value or cost.

liability of the Postal Service.

Nonvaluables

No value, or replacement

Additional fees will be collected on domestic Registered COD Mail under the same

Matter not having intrinsic

cost if postal insurance

conditions as outlined for regular Registered Mail, except that the additional fee

value such as letters, files,

coverage is desired.

shall be based on the amount by which the declared value of the article exceeds

records, etc.

(See note below.)

the limit of indemnity payable for the Registered COD Mail fee paid.

Note: Mailers who do not know replacement costs should contact a person or firm

See Notice 123, Price List, for fee schedules.

familiar with such documents and determine replacement costs before the articles

are mailed.

3877

PS Form

, January 2017 (Instructions page 2 of 2)

PSN 7530-02-000-9098

Ps Form 3877 - Firm Mailing Book For Accountable Mail Page 2

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