Effective January 4, 2010, the Postal Service™ is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) section 381.4 to update the authorized version of international reply coupons.
The article “International Reply Coupons” in Postal Bulletin 22274 (12-17-09, pages 48–49) announced the expiration of international reply coupon (IRC) Item Number 330700, which bears the expiration date of December 31, 2009, and announced new Item Number 330800, which bears the expiration date of December 31, 2013. Consistent with the information in that article, we are revising IMM 381.4d to reflect the new IRC.
In addition, we are revising 381.4f to stipulate that postmasters must process coupons as prescribed in section 11-6.6 of Handbook F-101, Field Accounting Procedures (previously, the reference was to section 426.9 of Handbook F-1, Post Office Accounting Procedures).
We will incorporate these revisions into the next printed version of the IMM and into the monthly update of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Mailing Standards, Pricing, 12-31-09
