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DA Form 7698 handles one job: unit mail room (umr), consolidated mail room (cmr), and postal service center (psc) inspection checklist. The official title is UNIT MAIL ROOM (UMR),CONSOLIDATED MAIL ROOM (CMR, AND POSTAL SERVICE CENTER (PSC) INSPECTION CHECKLIST. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is October 2012, status not stated, running 4 page(s) with about 200 fields to complete.
Authority sits in two places. DCS, G1 owns the form, AR 600-8-3 says when it is raised and where it goes. Routine cases need neither read in full — the page itself carries the sequence. The entries are completed by their subject or by unit administrative staff working from what that person supplies.
The formats are PDF, and the choice comes down to keyboard or pen. Fillable pdf for typing — live fields, tab order, saved entries. Printable pdf for handwriting — same page, no interactive objects, print it blank. Content is identical; only entry method differs.
Use a full pdf reader, not the browser viewer. Browser viewers display fields they cannot always save, and the loss shows up only when you reopen the file — type one entry, save, reopen, verify, then fill the rest.
No charge, no account, no email address. The file is the published document, distributed unaltered.
What the form asks for
- ContentArea1
- ContentArea2
- ContentArea3
- ContentArea4
- DATE
- DATE1
- DATE2
- FAIL_H
- GO_A
- GO_B
- GO_C
- GO_D
- GO_E
- GO_F
- GO_G
- GO_G2
- GO_H
- GO_H2
- GO_I
- GO_I2
- GO_J
- GO_J2
- GO_K
- GO_K2
Header first, always. Name as your official records spell it, identification number, unit, date of preparation — these four index the finished record, and an error in them hides the document from anyone searching for it later. The substantive blocks can wait thirty seconds.
Move between fields with tab; the build-time order follows the page and misses nothing. Click check boxes and option buttons, and expect an exclusive group to release the old choice when you set a new one. The trap is field width. Single-line fields do not wrap, so an overlong entry displays complete on screen and prints cut at the margin — put it in remarks or on a continuation instead. Mark inapplicable fields rather than leaving them blank, since an empty box carries no information about whether the question was read.
Signature comes after every other entry — ink or an approved electronic means, and without it the document is a draft. Where reviewing, approving or witnessing signatures are called for, take them in printed block order, each dated on the day applied. Before release, one pass from the top. The defects worth hunting are always the same four: mandatory fields left empty, identification digits transposed, dates with day and month reversed, and stale data surviving in a copy reused in place of a blank form.
The Privacy Act statement is read before the personal entries, not after. It gives the collection authority, the purpose, the routine uses and whether disclosure is mandatory or voluntary. Once filled, your copy is a personal record and gets stored and transmitted accordingly.
Send it where the directive says: the office it names, the unit administrative channel, or the individual's file. Take your copy before submission. How long the record is held comes from the schedule for the series, not from the office holding it.
Look for associated forms by series and number. In the DA series, documents sharing a proponent or a governing directive tend to travel together, and anything referenced on the page normally submits alongside. Collect continuations, covers and transmittals in advance of sending.
Edition date is the version number, printed on the page. Hold a locally saved copy against the current edition before reuse, since nothing on your machine signals a revision. Work already executed under a superseded edition remains as filed.
The files are copies of published Department of the Army forms. This site has no official connection, no authority to issue anything, and no basis for saying whether an office will accept a given submission. None of the text is legal advice. Real questions — entry, requirement, eligibility — belong with DCS, G1 or the administrative office servicing your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 7698?
- UNIT MAIL ROOM (UMR),CONSOLIDATED MAIL ROOM (CMR, AND POSTAL SERVICE CENTER (PSC) INSPECTION CHECKLIST
- Which edition is current?
- October 2012
- Who is responsible for this form?
- DCS, G1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?