You have arrived looking for DD Form 2257. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Designation/Termination MPC-FPC-COPE-PFO. Full title: DD Form 2257, Designation or Termination of Military Postal Clerk (M P C), Financial Postal Clerk (F P C), Custodian of Postal Effects (C O P E), Postal Finance Officer (P F O), May 2000..
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 1 pages, with approximately 21 fields to complete.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
Prefer typing over writing. Your form will likely be scanned and emailed onward, and typed text reproduces at every stage while pen strokes fade or blur. When you do write, print in capitals so the receiving clerk can read it.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
What the form asks for
- 1. To. (Use complete address.)
- 2. From. (Use complete address.)
- 3. The individual named below is designated: Press space bar to mark X in first box if military postal clerk (military), second box if financial postal clerk (civilian), third box if custodian of postal effects, or fourth box if postal finance officer.
- 4. Name (last, first, middle initial) (typed or printed).
- 5. Pay Grade.
- 6. Branch of Service.
- 7. Activity for which designated.
- 8. Acknowledgement. Signature of designee.
- 8. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9.a. Typed or printed name of designating official (last, first, middle initial).
- 9.b. Pay grade.
- 9.c. Signature.
- 9.d. Duty title.
- Termination. 10. The above designation is terminated effective: (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.)
- 11. Reason for termination. Explain in detail.
- 12.a. Typed or Printed Name of Terminating Official (last, first, middle initial).
- 12.b. Pay grade.
- 12.c. Signature.
- 12.d. Duty Title.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
Finally, understand the limits of what you have read. This page distributes a published Department of Defense form and describes how to fill it out. It does not give legal or procedural advice, and it cannot promise any outcome for your particular case. For that, contact not stated, your administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2257?
- DD Form 2257, Designation or Termination of Military Postal Clerk (M P C), Financial Postal Clerk (F P C), Custodian of Postal Effects (C O P E), Postal Finance Officer (P F O), 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?