Effective June 6, 2011, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) section 292.47 to indicate that mailers must write “Canada” on the front side rather than on the reverse of PS Tag 115, International Priority Airmail. This revision (which will assist Postal Service personnel during the verification process) is applicable only for International Priority Airmail™ (IPA®) letter-size and flat-size mailpieces that are prepared in trays and destined to Canada.
This revision supersedes the information published in the article “IMM Revision: Mail Preparation to Canada for International Priority Airmail and International Surface Air Lift Mail Services” in Postal Bulletin 22305 (2-24-11, pages 5–6). In a revision to 292.47a, that article stipulated that mailers, when completing PS Tag 115, must write “Canada” on the reverse of the tag before taping the tag to the tray sleeve for IPA mailings. However, we are updating this standard to stipulate that mailers must write “Canada” on the front side of the tag.
Although the effective date of this requirement is June 6, 2011, this revised text will appear in the IMM that will be released on April 17, 2011, and mailers are encouraged to make this change as soon as possible.
In the revision text published in this article, we have used bold to indicate the revised information, but the text will not be in bold in the published IMM.
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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292.47 Mail Preparation for Canada
***Mailers must prepare presorted IPA mail (full-service price and ISC drop shipment price) to Canada as follows:
[Revise the last sentence of item 292.47a to read as follows:]
a. ***In addition, the mailer must complete PS Tag 115, International Priority Airmail, write “Canada” on the front side of the tag, and tape the tag to the tray sleeve.
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We will incorporate this revision into the next printed version of the IMM and the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Mailing Standards,
Pricing, 4-7-11
