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DD Form 2258 — a Department of Defense document. Title of record: D D Form 22 58, Temporary Mail Disposition Instructions, January 19 82.. Stated purpose: Temporary Mail Disposition Instructions. Edition date not stated; status not stated.
Governing directive: not stated. Responsible office: not stated. The DD designation signals joint scope — all military departments, combatant commands and defense agencies draw on a single edition of the document.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
When the form is filed is a matter of not stated and local instruction. The description here covers the document itself and how to obtain a copy.
Available formats: PDF. The form runs 1 pages and contains approximately 24 fillable fields.
Xfdl is present in the set. The format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms — long the Defense standard for electronic forms — and needs the matching viewer; pdf applications will report the file as unreadable.
All formats download free of charge. Pdf files open in any modern reader; interactive fields behave most predictably in a desktop application, less so in browser viewers.
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.
Order of completion: identification block first, substantive entries second, certification and signature last. The blank is laid out in that sequence and the sequence is not arbitrary — later entries often depend on data established in the header.
The current edition is not stated. Superseded editions of DD forms are frequently rejected at the receiving office, since Department-wide forms change centrally and older layouts lose their field correspondence. Edition date appears in the lower corner of the printed blank.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
Once executed, routing follows not stated and the submitting organization's own instruction. Keeping a copy is standard.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2258 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.
Forms are reissued for several reasons: directive revision, changed data requirements, updated notice language. Confirming not stated at the moment of download covers the risk.
This page distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. It is not a source of legal advice and makes no representation about acceptance of any completed form. Questions of applicability, eligibility or procedure belong to not stated, the servicing personnel office, or the office named 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?