Products Mailable at Nonprofit Standard Mail Prices
1.6.11 Products Mailable at Nonprofit Standard Mail Prices
[1-4-10] The following products are mailable at Nonprofit Standard Mail prices:
a. Low-cost items within the meaning of 26 USC 513(h)(2), Internal Revenue Code. At the beginning of each calendar year, the value of low-cost items is adjusted for cost of living. Effective January 1, 2010, the cost of such items cannot exceed $9.60. This cost is the cost to the authorized organization that mails the items or on whose behalf the items are mailed.
b. Items donated or contributed to the qualified organization. Such items do not have to meet the definition of a low-cost item.
c. A periodical publication (as defined in 707.4.0) of a nonprofit organization unless it is ineligible under 1.6 to be mailed at the Nonprofit Standard Mail prices.
Each year the USPS gives new rules for nonprofit organizations who mail products. More information can be obtained at www.usps.gov.
