Letters may only be sent in an Overnite Express Letter Envelope. Do not use Overnite Express to send Letters in any other packaging. By tendering your shipment to Overnite Express, you (the shipper) agree to comply with the requirements of the Private Express Statutes.

Definition of a Letter

A Letter is a message directed to a specific person or address and recorded in or on a tangible object. Tangible objects used for letters include, but are not limited to paper, recording disks, and magnetic tapes.

A Message is any information or intelligence that can be recorded and directed to a specific person or address when it, or the container is carried, singly or with other messages, identical or different, is marked for delivery to a specific person or place, or is delivered to a specific person or place in accordance with a selective delivery plan.

For additional information, please see the United States Postal Service Private Express Statutes 39 CFR 310.1 and 39 CFR 310.1(a)(2) through (6)).

Materials not considered Letters

Within the meaning of the Private Express Statutes, the following are not considered letters:

1. Telegrams
2. Financial Instruments such as checks, drafts, promissory notes, bonds, stock certificates, securities, title policies, and insurance policies, when shipped to, from or between financial institutions
3. Abstracts of title, mortgages, and other liens, deeds, leases, releases, and articles of incorporation
4. Papers filed in lawsuits or formal quasi-judicial proceedings, and orders of courts and quasi-judicial bodies
5. Newspapers and periodicals
6. Books and Catalogs consisting of 24 or more bound pages with at least 22 printed, and telephone directories
7. Matter sent from a printer, stationer, or similar source to a person ordering such matter for use as his or her letters
8. Letters sent to a records storage center exclusively for storage, sent exclusively for destruction, retrieved from a records storage center, andsent as part of a household or business relocation
9. Tags, labels, stickers, signs, or posters whose type-size, layout, or physical characteristics indicate that they are primarily intended to be attached to other objects for reading
10. Photographic material sent by a person to a processor, and processed photographic material being returned from the processor to the person sending the material for processing
11. Copy sent from a person to an independent or company-owned printer or compositor, or between printers and compositors, and proofs or printed matter returned from the printer or compositor to the office of the person who initially sent the copy
12. Sound recordings, films, and packets of identical printed letters containing messages that are to be totally or almost totally disseminated to the public
13. Computer programs recorded on media suitable for direct input.

For additional information, please see the United States Postal Service Private Express Statutes 39 CFR 310.1(a)(7).