What does "Change Service Requested" mean on a magazine?
I see it on every magazine label, but have no clue what it means. I found this site from the USPS, but it is in technical mumbo jumbo and I was hoping to find out in layman’s terms.
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It means they want the postal service to notify them if you have changed your address.
It is a way for the magazine to notify the US Mail service that they want undeliverable mailings to be handled a certain way- specifically that whatever address change or forwarding has been set up between the receiving person and the USPS be forwarded to them, so that they can send the magazine to the new address directly.
IE, if the magazine didn’t write “Change Service Requested” and the subscriber moved, the postal service would just junk the undeliverable magazine and not tell the magazine they did so.
The USPS charges companies when they do this, and so “Change Service Requested” lets them know that the magazine is down for those service charges.
Late to the party, I see. Anyhoo, it’s exactly as the above has said (except the USPS doesn’t “junk” the undeliverable magazine. If it’s periodical class, as most magazines are, it gets returned to sender). You mostly see it on standard (third-class) mail, but any piece that has this gets photocopied and that gets sent to the sender if there are any changes to the address.
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