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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2257 — DD Form 2257, Designation or Termination of Military Postal Clerk (M P C), Financial Postal Clerk (F P C), Custodian of Postal Effects (C O P E), Postal Finance Officer (P F O), May 2000. — exists to Designation/Termination MPC-FPC-COPE-PFO, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
Requirement traces to not stated; the form belongs to not stated. Everything about schedule sits below that in local instruction, which is where to ask if a date matters.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 21 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Fillable pdf is the default choice. Its boxes hold typed entries inside the document; the printable release is a static image of the same page with no interactive layer. Since DD forms routinely cross between services and agencies before they are filed, typed entries matter more here than on a form that stays inside one office.
What the form asks for
- 1. To. (Use complete address.)
- 2. From. (Use complete address.)
- 3. The individual named below is designated: Press space bar to mark X in first box if military postal clerk (military), second box if financial postal clerk (civilian), third box if custodian of postal effects, or fourth box if postal finance officer.
- 4. Name (last, first, middle initial) (typed or printed).
- 5. Pay Grade.
- 6. Branch of Service.
- 7. Activity for which designated.
- 8. Acknowledgement. Signature of designee.
- 8. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9.a. Typed or printed name of designating official (last, first, middle initial).
- 9.b. Pay grade.
- 9.c. Signature.
- 9.d. Duty title.
- Termination. 10. The above designation is terminated effective: (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.)
- 11. Reason for termination. Explain in detail.
- 12.a. Typed or Printed Name of Terminating Official (last, first, middle initial).
- 12.b. Pay grade.
- 12.c. Signature.
- 12.d. Duty Title.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
Look up cross-referenced forms by series and number. DD numbering is unified across the Department, which removes the usual step of identifying which service issued the thing.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2257?
- DD Form 2257, Designation or Termination of Military Postal Clerk (M P C), Financial Postal Clerk (F P C), Custodian of Postal Effects (C O P E), Postal Finance Officer (P F O), May 2000.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?