IMM Revision: Priority Mail International Flat Rate Envelopes and Small Flat Rate Priced Boxes Sent to Cuba

Effective January 22, 2012, the Postal Service™ is revis­ing Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to reflect current stan­dards for mailers who send authorized dutiable items to Cuba.

The article “IMM Revision: Updated Standards for Mail­ing Items to Cuba” in Postal Bulletin 22268 (9-24-09, pages 14–19) announced new standards for items mailed to Cuba. Consequently, certain dutiable items that were pre­viously nonmailable to Cuba became mailable, and the fol­lowing sentence that appears in the Priority Mail International® section of the Individual Country Listing for Cuba should have been deleted: “May not contain dutiable items.”

We will delete this sentence in the next monthly update of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.