Effective July 1, 2009, the Postal Service™ is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) Exhibits 292.452 and 293.452 to update numerous exchange office names and destination codes for International Priority Airmail® (IPA™) service and International Surface Air Lift® (ISAL®) service.
Periodically, the Postal Service receives such requests from foreign posts to facilitate operational needs.
In Exhibit 292.452, we are revising the entries for the following IPA destination countries:
n Algeria.
n Bonaire (removed from list — see the entry for Netherlands Antilles).
n Burma.
n Corsica (removed from list — see the entry for France).
n Curaçao (removed from list — see the entry for Netherlands Antilles).
n Dominica.
n France.
n French Polynesia.
n Indonesia.
n Netherlands Antilles.
n New Zealand (only a change to the footnote number).
n Paraguay.
n Saba (removed from list — see the entry for Netherlands Antilles).
n Saint Eustatius (removed from list — see the entry for Netherlands Antilles).
n Saint Maarten (removed from list — see the entry for Netherlands Antilles).
n Senegal.
n Serbia, Republic of.
n Seychelles.
n Spain.
n Thailand.
n Turkey.
n Vietnam.
In Exhibit 293.452, we are revising the entries for the following ISAL destination countries:
n France.
n Germany.
n Ireland.
n Italy.
n Japan.
n Liechtenstein.
n Netherlands Antilles.
n Papua New Guinea.
n Saudi Arabia.
n Spain.
n Switzerland.
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, 6-18-09
