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Department of Defense form 2261. Official designation: DD Form 2261, Registered Mail - Balance and Inventory, May 2000.. Purpose: Registered Mail - Balance and Inventory. Current edition not stated, status not stated.
Issued under not stated, with not stated as proponent. A DD number marks a Department-wide instrument: the same blank form serves every military department and the defense agencies, rather than one service alone.
Common users: service members regardless of branch, Defense civilian staff, and the offices that file, verify or retain the finished document.
Submission follows the schedule set by not stated and by local implementing procedures. This page provides the blank form for download and general orientation only.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 2 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 158.
The xfdl release corresponds to IBM Lotus Forms. This format carried Department-wide form distribution for years and opens only in IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible client, not in a pdf reader.
Free download applies to every format listed. Any current pdf reader opens the pdf files, though field behaviour is most reliable in a full desktop reader rather than a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- Physical inventory, block 2.
- Physical inventory, block 3.
- Physical inventory, block 4.
- Physical inventory, block 5.
- Physical inventory, block 6.
- Physical inventory, block 7.
- Physical inventory, block 8.
- Physical inventory, block 9.
- Physical inventory, block 10.
- Physical inventory, block 11.
- Physical inventory, block 12.
- Physical inventory, block 13.
- Physical inventory, block 14.
- Physical inventory, block 15.
- Physical inventory, block 16.
- Physical inventory, block 17.
- Physical inventory, block 18.
- Physical inventory, block 19.
- Part 2. Remarks.
- Preparing Activity.
- Period covered (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day). From.
- Period covered: To.
- Part 1. Number of Items Processed. Section A. On hand, accepted, received, and prepared for dispatch. 1. Items on hand at start of period.
- 2. Items accepted on PS Form 3806 and 3877 and returned from UMC on PS Form 3883.
The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.
Edition in use: not stated. Because DD forms are revised at Department level and distributed to all services at once, an obsolete printing may not match the fields an office expects. The date is printed on the form face.
Instructions printed on the form or in not stated govern individual field entries. Where the two differ, the governing publication controls.
After completion, the copy goes to the office designated by not stated or by local procedure. Retention of a personal copy is ordinary practice and costs nothing.
Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 2261 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 2261?
- DD Form 2261, Registered Mail - Balance and Inventory, 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?