The Postal Service hereby provides notice that Post Office Box ^TM service for approximately 1,625 locations will be reassigned from their market-dominant fee groups to competitive fee groups.

In May 2011, a Request of the United States Postal Service was filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to transfer approximately 6,800 PO Box locations from market-dominant to competitive fee groups, PRC Docket No. MC2011-25. Documents pertinent to that proceeding are available at www.prc.gov, Docket No. MC2011-25. At that time, the Postal Service advised the PRC that a Federal Register notice would be filed when future PO Box locations are transferred.

Since the original filing, the Postal Service expanded the competitive service to an additional location, see 79 FR 60928-60929 (Oct. 2, 2013), and is now expanding to additional locations. Competitive Post Office Box service includes several enhancements such as: electronic notification of the receipt of mail, use of an alternate street address format, signature on file for delivery of certain accountable mail, and additional hours of access and/or earlier availability of mail in some locations.

Since 2011, the Postal Service has expanded its use of competitive data to identify locations that qualify for reassignment to competitive status. This analysis identified approximately 1,625 locations which are eligible to be classified as competitive and assigned to a competitive Post Office Box fee group. These include Puerto Rican locations with nearby competitors that were omitted in 2011 but are included now.

The Effective date: August 27, 2014.

The following is a list of the locations which are described in the Notice above as qualifying for reassignment from market-dominant to competitive fee groups. The list is sorted by ZIP Code in ascending numerical order with geographical breaks and headers. As indicated by the column headings, this list provides the ZIP Code of the affected PO Boxes (ZIP), the office name of the location (OFFICE NAME), the city where the PO Boxes are located (CITY), the current market-dominant fee group (CFG), and the new competitive fee group (NFG).

Please note that there are more ZIP Codes than locations being moved to competitive fee groups, because some locations serve more than one ZIP Code. These locations can be identified whenever multiple ZIP Codes are listed for a single office name.

List of Post Office Box locations (PDF)