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Department of Defense form 2273. Official designation: DD Form 2273, Irregularities in Makeup and Dispatch of Mail, May 2000.. Purpose: Irregularities in Makeup and Dispatch of Mail. 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.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
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 40 fillable fields.
Pdf serves as the base format. In the fillable variant, each box is an interactive field that holds typed text inside the document. In the flat printable variant, no fields exist — the page prints as a blank to be completed by hand. Typed entries survive transmission; handwriting does not always survive scanning.
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.
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
- 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.
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.
Verify the edition date against not stated before entry. Department-level revisions replace the blank across every service simultaneously, so an old copy in a desk drawer may no longer correspond to current field numbering.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
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 2273 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
Where a DA form is cited alongside a DD form, the two belong to different systems: DA numbering is Army-specific and administered by an Army proponent, while DD numbering is Defense-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. Numbers do not translate between the systems.
Revision occurs when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when statutory notice language is amended. Verification of the edition date at download addresses all three.
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 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?