IMM Revision: Prices for International Mailing Products

Effective April 17, 2011, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM^®) to reflect price changes for the First-Class Mail International^® mailing products noted in this article.

The overall price increase for First-Class Mail International products will be approximately 5.1 percent. More specifically, letter-size pieces will increase by 1.9 percent, flat-size pieces will increase by 4.0 percent, package-size pieces will increase by 7.8 percent, and postcards will increase by 1.0 percent.

Also, the price structure for postcards will include only two price categories: one category for Canada and Mexico, which will be priced at $0.80 (previously, Canada and Mexico were priced separately, at $0.75 and $0.79 respectively), and another category for all other countries, which will remain at the current price of $0.98.

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

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Individual Country Listings

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First-Class Mail International (240)

[For each country that offers First-Class Mail International service, replace the current prices with the prices noted in the following tables based on each country’s appropriate price group.]

Letters

Weight Not Over (ozs.)	Price Groups
Weight Not Over (ozs.)	1	2	3, 4, 5	6, 7, 8, 9
1	$0.80	$0.80	$0.98	$0.98	Note: A letter meeting one or more of the nonmachinable characteristics in 241.217 is charged a nonmachinable surcharge of $0.20.
2	1.08	1.36	1.82	1.76
3	1.36	1.92	2.66	2.54
3.5	1.64	2.48	3.50	3.32

Large Envelopes (Flats)

Weight Not Over (ozs.)	Price Groups
Weight Not Over (ozs.)	1	2	3, 4, 5	6, 7, 8, 9
1	$1.08	$1.08	$1.30	$1.30
2	1.34	1.65	2.17	2.13
3	1.60	2.22	3.04	2.96
4	1.86	2.79	3.91	3.79
5	2.12	3.36	4.78	4.62
6	2.38	3.93	5.65	5.45
7	2.64	4.50	6.52	6.28
8	2.90	5.07	7.39	7.11
12	3.94	6.71	9.18	8.86
16	4.98	8.35	10.97	10.61
20	6.02	9.99	12.76	12.36
24	7.06	11.63	14.55	14.11
28	8.10	13.27	16.34	15.86
32	9.14	14.91	18.13	17.61
36	10.18	16.55	19.92	19.36
40	11.22	18.19	21.71	21.11
44	12.26	19.83	23.50	22.86
48	13.30	21.47	25.29	24.61
52	14.34	23.11	27.08	26.36
56	15.38	24.75	28.87	28.11
60	16.42	26.39	30.66	29.86
64	17.46	28.03	32.45	31.61

Packages (Small Packets)

Weight Not Over (ozs.)	Price Groups
Weight Not Over (ozs.)	1	2	3, 4, 5	6, 7, 8, 9
1	$1.72	$1.72	$1.72	$1.72
2	1.98	2.29	2.59	2.53
3	2.24	2.86	3.46	3.34
4	2.50	3.43	4.33	4.15
5	2.76	4.00	5.20	4.96
6	3.02	4.57	6.07	5.77
7	3.28	5.14	6.94	6.58
8	3.54	5.71	7.81	7.39
12	4.56	7.33	9.60	9.14
16	5.58	8.95	11.39	10.89
20	6.60	10.57	13.18	12.64
24	7.62	12.19	14.97	14.39
28	8.64	13.81	16.76	16.14
32	9.66	15.43	18.55	17.89
36	10.68	17.05	20.34	19.64
40	11.70	18.67	22.13	21.39
44	12.72	20.29	23.92	23.14
48	13.74	21.91	25.71	24.89
52	14.76	23.53	27.50	26.64
56	15.78	25.15	29.29	28.39
60	16.80	26.77	31.08	30.14
64	17.82	28.39	32.87	31.89

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Postcards (241.22)

[For Canada and Mexico only, replace the current price of a postcard to read as follows:]

$0.80

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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, 3-10-11