So what is DD Form 2756? The short answer: a Defense Department document, officially DD Form 2756, Weight-based Assessment of Military Postal Service - Outgoing. May 1996., used to Weight-Based Assessment of Military Postal Service - Outgoing. Anything else you need follows from that.
Does it apply to your branch? Yes. The DD prefix means Department of Defense, not one service, so the same blank serves the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and the Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction. There is no Army version and no Navy version to search for.
Who is behind it? not stated maintains the form, and not stated is the publication that requires it. Those two names answer most questions about why you are being asked to submit anything at all.
How current is this? Edition not stated, publisher status not stated. That is the version described throughout this page.
What the form asks for
- Item 7. A,. Official. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of pounds for day 1.
- Item 7. A,. Official. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of ounces for day 1.
- Item 7. B,. Official. Standard or M O M,. Enter the total number of pounds for day 1.
- Item 7. B,. Official. Standard or M O M,. Enter the total number of ounces for day 1.
- Item 8. A,. Official, I D S,. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of pounds for day 1.
- Item 8. A,. Official, I D S,. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of ounces for day 1.
- Item 8. B,. Official, I D S. Standard or S A M,. Enter the total number of pounds for day 1.
- Item 8. B,. Official, I D S. Standard or S A M,. Enter the total number of ounces for day 1.
- Item 9. A,. Personal. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of pounds for day 1.
- Item 9. A,. Personal. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of ounces for day 1.
- Item 9. B,. Personal. Standard or S A M,. Enter the total number of pounds for day 1.
- Item 9. B,. Personal. Standard or S A M,. Enter the total number of ounces for day 1.
- Item 10. A,. Personal. I D S,. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of pounds for day 1.
- Item 10. A,. Personal. I D S,. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of ounces for day 1.
- Item 10. B,. Personal. I D S,. Standard or S A M,. Enter the total number of pounds for day 1.
- Item 10. B,. Personal. I D S,. Standard or S A M,. Enter the total number of ounces for day 1.
- Item 11. Initials. Enter clerk releasing mail initials for day 1.
- Item 11. Initials. Enter the agency representative initials who collects the mail for day 1.
- Item 7. A,. Official. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of pounds for day 2.
- Item 7. A,. Official. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of ounces for day 2.
- Item 7. B,. Official. Standard or M O M,. Enter the total number of pounds for day 2.
- Item 7. B,. Official. Standard or M O M,. Enter the total number of ounces for day 2.
- Item 8. A,. Official, I D S,. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of pounds for day 2.
- Item 8. A,. Official, I D S,. Letter class or priority. Enter the total number of ounces for day 2.
Download the form
What can you download? The available set is PDF. How big is the job? The form runs 2 pages with roughly 200 fields to complete.
What is the difference between fillable and printable? A fillable pdf has real field boxes that accept typed text and hold it inside the file. A printable pdf is a flat blank with no fields at all, intended for a printer and a pen. Which one you have determines how you complete the form, so it is worth checking first.
Is handwriting acceptable? Yes, but it is the weaker choice. Scanning flattens pen strokes and reproduction blurs them, while typed characters survive the whole chain intact. Print in capitals if you are working from a paper blank.
Is xfdl worth downloading? Only if you have the viewer. The format comes from IBM Lotus Forms, which carried Defense form distribution for a long stretch, and no ordinary pdf application will read it.
Is there a charge? No — free, all formats. Where should you open the file? In a full pdf application on your own machine. Browser-embedded viewers handle field properties unpredictably.
Can you skip around the form? Better not to. The layout runs identification, then content, then certification, and entries near the bottom frequently take their meaning from what sits above them.
What is the first thing to check? The edition date on the face of the form. Does it read not stated? If not, the copy is superseded, and a superseded DD form is a real problem: Department-level revisions replace the blank for every service at once, so an old file on a shared drive is stale everywhere, not just in your office.
What about a box that does not apply to you? Enter N/A rather than leaving it empty. An empty field reads as an oversight and sends the form back; N/A reads as an answer. What about dates? Use the format printed beside the field, not the one you write by habit.
What is the Privacy Act Statement doing on the form? Telling you, before you supply personal identifiers, under what authority the information is collected, what it will be used for, who else may see it, and whether answering is voluntary or mandatory. Is it worth reading? It is the only part of the form written for your benefit rather than the file's.
Is a typed name enough? No. The signature block takes an actual signature: pen on paper, or a digital signature applied with your Common Access Card where the receiving system accepts one. Add the date beside it before you close the file.
Which mistakes are worth a final check? Superseded edition, gaps in mandatory fields, unreadable writing on a scanned copy, non-conforming date format, unsigned or undated certification.
Is the form its own instruction manual? Partly. The rest sits in not stated, which is also the authority where the two texts conflict.
Who receives it? The office not stated designates, subject to whatever local instruction your organization adds. What do you keep? A copy, made before the form leaves your hands.
How do you find a form referenced inside this one? By its number alone. The DD sequence runs across the entire Department, so a number identifies exactly one document regardless of which service cited it.
Why do some instructions cite both a DA and a DD form? Because the procedure touches both systems, not because the forms are related. Service forms answer to a service proponent; DD forms answer to not stated or another Department office. The sequences were never aligned.
Why do editions change at all? Three reasons, mostly: the prescribing directive gets reissued, the information collected changes, or the required notice language is amended. Are you notified when it happens? No. Which is why confirming not stated at the moment you download is worth the few seconds.
Will your completed form be accepted? That is not a question this page can answer. What you have here is a published Department of Defense document, a description of it and instructions for filling it out. Nothing on the page is legal advice, and nothing here determines what any office does with a submission. Where do the remaining questions go? To not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2756?
- DD Form 2756, Weight-based Assessment of Military Postal Service - Outgoing. May 1996.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?