The article titled “IMM Revision: Changes to Pricing and Mailing Standards for International Mailing Services” in Postal Bulletin 22352 (12-13-12, pages 52–56 and 81–84) included many revisions that incorporated the mailing standards for the newly introduced First-Class Package International Service™ (which became effective January 27, 2013).
However, in that article and in the edition of Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) published January 27, 2013, and in the subsequent editions of the IMM through June 2013, the section about Registered Mail™ service in the IMM’s Individual Country Listings (ICLs) inadvertently failed to note that Registered Mail service is available with First-Class Package International Service (although its availability was listed in other places in the IMM).
Accordingly, and consistent with IMM 332d, we are revising the ICLs that offer Registered Mail service to note that it is available with First-Class Package International Service.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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Individual Country Listings
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Afghanistan
[Editor’s Note: We are using Afghanistan as an example, but this revision applies to each country that offers Registered Mail service — i.e., to every country except Iraq, Montenegro, and North Korea (Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of), which do not offer Registered Mail service.]
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Extra Services
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Registered Mail (330)
[For Afghanistan and also for each country that offers Registered Mail service, revise the sentence directly after the text “Maximum Indemnity: $46.14” to read as follows (to include First-Class Package International Service):]
Available only for First-Class Mail International, including postcards, First-Class Package International Service, Priority Mail International Flat Rate Envelopes, Priority Mail International Small Flat Rate Priced Boxes, and matter for the blind or other physically handicapped persons.
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We will incorporate this corrected information into the next update of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Pricing, 6-27-13
