Saturday,  June 30, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 352 • 8 of 32 •  Other Editions

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dards for First-Class Mail will remain unchanged.
• These changes will narrow the overnight and two-day service areas and expand the three-day service area.
• The Postal Service is changing the delivery day range for end-to-end Periodicals mailed within the contiguous forty-eight states, from the current one to nine days, to two to nine days on July 1st.
• The new rules make three significant changes to the service standards for destination-entry (drop ship) Periodicals.   First, the overnight service standard will be excluded for Periodicals entered at Network Distribution Centers (NDCs) and Auxiliary Service Facilities (ASFs).   Second, they are changing the delivery day range for destination-entry Periodicals mailed within the contiguous forty-eight states, from the current one to two days, to one to three days.   And third, they are changing the delivery day range for destination-entry Periodicals that originate or destinate outside the contiguous forty-eight states, from the current one to seven days, to one to eleven days.
• The new rules do not revise the service standards for Standard Mail and Package Services pieces.   Further information about phase two service standards change will be provided in early 2014.

Service Notice: Lola K. Wattier 

• (May 18, 1920 - June 29, 2012)
• Lola K. Wattier, 92, of Clark formerly Conde, SD died Friday, June 29, 2012 at Golden Living Center, Clark. 
•  Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 Tuesday, July 3 at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, Bristol. Burial will be in the Bristol Cemetery. 
•  Close casket visitation will be from 6-8 Monday, July 2 at Coester Funeral Home, Webster. 

Death Notice:Alice Kahla

Alice Kahla, 96, of Conde passed away Friday, June 29, 2012 at Avera St. Lukes Hospital, Aberdeen.  Services are pending for July 5th with Paetznick-Garness Funeral Chapel, Groton.

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