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Effective August 3, 2009, the Postal Service™ is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) section 381.3b to codify that international reply coupons purchased in foreign countries are exchangeable at U.S. Post Office™ facilities toward the purchase of postage stamps and embossed stamped envelopes at $0.98 per coupon.
Consistent with Article 13 of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Convention and Article RL142.3 of the UPU Letter Post Regulations, inbound international reply coupon service allows customers in member countries of the UPU to prepay for a reply sent by mail by purchasing reply coupons that are exchangeable for U.S. postage stamps. The regulation provides that one coupon is exchangeable for a stamp or stamps representing the minimum postage of an unregistered airmail letter, regardless of the country destination. For this purpose, and in order to satisfy the UPU requirement, the equivalent exchange value is that of a 1-ounce First-Class Mail International™ letter, which is currently priced at $0.98.
We will incorporate this revision 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, 7-16-09
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