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Treat DD Form 2258 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: D D Form 22 58, Temporary Mail Disposition Instructions, January 19 82.. Function: Temporary Mail Disposition Instructions. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Available: PDF, across 1 pages, roughly 24 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
What the form asks for
- D D Form 22 58, Temporary Mail Disposition Instructions, January 19 82
- Printed name: last, first, middle initial.
- Receptacle number.
- Status: Press space bar to mark X if status is A D V A S G.
- Mark X if status is T D Y.
- Mark X if status is on leave.
- Mark X if status is hospital
- Effective date from which to forward or hold mail: year, month, day.
- Mark X if status is confined.
- Mark X if status is AWOL
- Effective date to which to hold or forward mail: Year, month, day.
- Mark X if all mail is to be forwarded.
- Mark X if all mail is to be held.
- Indicate which items are to be forwarded only: Mark X if letters.
- Mark X if paychecks are to be forwarded.
- Mark X if parcels are to be forwarded.
- Mark X if newspapers and magazines are to be forwarded.
- Mark X if other items are to be forwarded and explain in the Special Instructions block.
- Complete forwarding address.
- Special instructions.
- Signature of receptacle holder.
- Date signed: year, month, day.
- For advance receptacle assignment, list name of sponsor and duty phone in the Special Instructions block.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
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.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
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 2258?
- D D Form 22 58, Temporary Mail Disposition Instructions, January 19 82.
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?