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Treat DD Form 2273 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2273, Irregularities in Makeup and Dispatch of Mail, May 2000.. Function: Irregularities in Makeup and Dispatch of Mail. 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 40 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
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.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- 8. Pouch/sack. Attach slide label. Press space bar to mark X if Wrong type.
- 8. Mark X if Unserviceable.
- 8. Mark X if Improperly sealed.
- 9. Facing slip. Attach with slide label. Mark X if Missing.
- 9. Mark X if Incorrect.
- 9. Mark X if Improperly prepared.
- 10. Letter ties. Attach slide label and facing slip. Mark X if Broken.
- 10. Mark X if Loose.
- 10. Mark X if Directs not made.
- 11. Pressure sensitive label. Attach slide label. Mark X if Missing.
- 11. Mark X if Incorrect.
- 12. Outside mail, PS Label 136. Mark X if Missing.
- 12. Mark X if Incorrect.
- 12. Mark X if Improperly prepared.
- 13. Coded tag. Attach slide label. Mark X if Missing.
- 13. Mark X if Incorrect.
- 13. Mark X if Improperly prepared.
- 13. Mark X if Altered.
- 14. Slide label. Attach. Mark X if Missing.
- 14. Mark X if Incorrect.
- 14. Mark X if Improperly prepared.
- 14. Mark X if Altered.
- 1. Date. 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers.
- 2. To: use complete address.
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.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Route it where not stated or local procedure directs, and keep a copy first. On a Department form the receiving office is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint command — which makes recovering a lost original slower than it would be internally.
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.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
This page publishes a Defense document and explains its contents. It does not advise, does not rule on applicability, and determines nothing about how a completed form will be treated. Direct such questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2273?
- DD Form 2273, Irregularities in Makeup and Dispatch of Mail, 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?