Effective April 1, 2012, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) section 213.82 to delete the prohibition to purchase additional insurance for Global Express Guaranteed® (GXG®) items.
In the article titled “IMM Revision: Changes to Pricing and Mailing Standards for International Shipping Services” in Postal Bulletin 22300 (12-16-10, pages 82–94), we announced that, effective January 2, 2011, permit imprint was available as a new postage payment option for GXG service when used in conjunction with USPS®-produced Global Shipping Software (GSS). However, we also stipulated that mailers using this postage payment method could not use the option to purchase insurance as an extra service.
Subsequent investigation reveals that the option to add insurance was built into the GSS system when GXG was added to the suite of GSS authorized services; consequently, we are removing this prohibition from IMM 213.82.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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2 Conditions for Mailing
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210 Global Express Guaranteed
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213 Prices and Postage Payment Methods
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213.8 Permit Imprint
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213.82 Permit Imprint — Commercial Base or Commercial Plus Prices
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[Revise 213.82 by removing the Note stating, “When using GSS, no extra services such as insurance are available.”]
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We will incorporate this revision into the next update of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Pricing, 3-8-12
