IMM Revision: IPA Country Price Groups and Foreign Exchange Offices

Effective November 1, 2010, the Postal Service™ is revis­ing Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM^®) Exhibit 292.452 to reflect changes for International Priority Airmail™ (IPA^®) service for Azores, France, Madeira Islands, Monaco, and Portugal.

Currently, Exhibit 292.452 lists Azores and Madeira Islands as separate entries. However, to be consistent with the IMM’s Individual Country Listing for Portugal, which includes Azores and Madeira Islands as destinations in Portugal, we are removing Azores and Madeira Islands from Exhibit 292.452 as individual entries and are instead including them by reference with Portugal.

In addition, in Exhibit 292.452 we are adding to the entry for France a footnote that stipulates that all IPA mail labeled to France, with the exception of IPA mail labeled to Monaco, is sent to France. With this change, we are able to align the price group for Monaco to be the same as the price group for France (price group 5).

In order to provide mailers the time needed to make necessary logistic and software changes, we are not requiring this change from mailers until November 1, 2010. Nonetheless, in order to expedite delivery, mailers may implement these changes immediately.

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Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)

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2 Conditions for Mailing

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290 Commercial Services

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292 International Priority Airmail (IPA) Service

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292.4 Mail Preparation

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292.45 Sortation

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292.452 Presorted Mail — Direct Country Bundle Label

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Exhibit 292.452 IPA Country Price Groups and Foreign Exchange Offices

[Delete the entries for Azores and Madeira Islands in their entirety; revise the entries for France, Monaco, and Portu­gal to read as follows:]

 

Country Name	Foreign Exchange Office Name	Destination Code	Price Group
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France3	Roissy Courrier International	CDG	5
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Monaco	Monaco Post	MON	5
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Portugal (includes Azores and Madeira Islands)	Lisbon Province	LIS	11
* * * * *  [In the footnote section, renumber current footnotes 3, 4, and 5 as 4, 5, and 6. Insert new footnote 3 to read as fol­lows:] 3. For all destinations to France other than Monaco. For Monaco, see the entry for Monaco in this exhibit. * * * * *

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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, 9-23-10