You have arrived looking for DD Form 2273. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Irregularities in Makeup and Dispatch of Mail. Full title: DD Form 2273, Irregularities in Makeup and Dispatch of Mail, May 2000..
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
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.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
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
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 1 pages and about 40 entries.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black ink.
Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.
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.
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
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.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
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 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?