Mailing Instructions

The instructions for preparing domestic mail are listed below:

• Express Mail
• First-Class Mail
• Presorted First-Class Mail
• Standard Mail
• Package Services
• Presorted Bound Printed Matter

To see how the Postal Service handles undeliverable mail and to see how to request different handling, please see the Ancillary Service Endorsement page.

   Express Mail

1. Mail Piece Preparation
   You may use the free Express Mail packaging available from us: cardboard and Tyvek envelopes and cardboard boxes and tubes or your own packaging. If you use your own packaging, it must be big enough for the Express Mail label: 7 3/4 x 5 1/5 inches.
2. Mailing Instructions Form
   Please attach a completed pink Fast Mail form to each mail piece filing in:
   • Department name and finance or commercial account number.
   • Sender's name and telephone extension (if we need to contact someone).
   • Check Express Mail in the domestic column.
   • Check any optional services desired. If you are using any optional services, please complete and attach their forms to the Fast Mail form or to the proper place on each mail piece.
3. Mailing Deadlines
   To be dispatched the same day, we must receive your completely prepared Express Mail pieces by 4:35 p.m. Contact Sharon Perry at 674-2709 or perrys@acu.edu for the mailing deadlines on Federal holidays and the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day.

   First-Class Mail
   Package Services

1. Mail Piece Preparation
   The sender is usually responsible for all mail piece preparation – packaging, addressing, sorting, etc. We can seal envelopes up to 6½ x 9½ inches if the envelopes are flapped over each other. For more information, please see the Mail Piece Design and Addressing Web pages.
   
   If you would like us to prepare your mail piece or mailing, please contact Holly Perry at 674-2865 or holly.a.perry@acu.edu to schedule a mail production job. For more information, please see the Mail Production Web page.

2. Mailing Preparation
   Please separate your mail by class of service: First-Class/Priority Mail, Parcel Post, Media Mail or Library Mail. Bundle or box up similar types and sizes of mail together: post cards, letters, flats or packages. We can loan you letter trays, flat tubs or package sacks.

3. Mailing Instructions Form
   Please attach a completed white Domestic Mail form to each bundle, box, etc. filing in:

   • Department name and finance or commercial account number.
   • Sender's name and telephone extension (if we need to contact someone).
   • Check a classification.
   • Check any optional services desired. If you are using any optional services, please complete and attach their forms to the Domestic Mail form or to the proper place on each mail piece.

4. Mailing Deadlines
   It is our goal that outgoing mail received by 3:30 p.m. is given to the Postal Service the same day. The mailing deadlines for the holidays and breaks are listed on Our Hours page and are published in Off the Beam, our newsletter to faculty and staff.

   Presorted First-Class Mail
   Standard Mail
   Presorted Bound Printed Matter

Mailings of these types have unique mail piece and mailing preparation requirements. Because of this, we highly recommend that you involve us as close to the beginning of your planning for these mailings as possible. For more information about these mailings, contact Holly Perry at 674-2865 or holly.a.perry@acu.edu.