The United States Post Office announced a major change in the rules for both first class and standard mail, effective as of Sunday, November 23, 2008, that will help them swiftly complete their appointed rounds and save you money in the process.

The New Move Update standards mean mailers MUST begin using addresses that have been updated within the previous 95 days of the mailing date. For example, a mailing entered on January 5, 2009 must bear addresses that were updated no earlier than Oct. 2, 2008.

The NCOA Link reduces undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) mail by electronically checking them against the USPS National Change of Address database and then correcting addresses prior to mailing. This eliminates printing and postage costs for mail that cannot be forwarded. The USPS believes "...the revised standards are crucial to the business interest of the mailers as well as the continued vitality of the postal system." They cite 2004 as an example of handling 9.7 billion pieces of UAA mail at a cost of $1.85 billion.

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Long thought to be the official US Post Office Motto, "Neither snow, nor rain, nor gloom of night..." is attributed to Greek Historian Herodotus (c.500 BC). According to Bob Canon, Public Affairs and Communications Officer for the USPS in Boston, the post office has no motto.

Mr. Canon said the reason it has been associated with US mail carriers is because an employee of the architectural firm that built the New York City General Post Office in 1896-97 came up with the idea of engraving the saying around the two city block wide building.

Although not the official motto, it is the motto postal employees have lived up to for more than a century.