Effective September 3, 2013, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) Exhibits 292.452 and 293.452 to update the foreign office of exchange codes for International Priority Airmail™ (IPA®) items sent to Mauritius, and for International Surface Air Lift® (ISAL®) items sent to France and Mauritius.
Periodically, the Postal Service receives such requests from foreign posts to facilitate operational needs. In this case, these foreign posts requested that these updates be implemented as soon as possible. However, in order to provide mailers the time needed to make necessary logistic and software changes, we are not requiring this change from mailers until September 3, 2013. Nonetheless, in order to expedite delivery, mailers are encouraged to implement these changes immediately.
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 Office of Exchange Codes
[Revise the entry for Mauritius to read as follows:]
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293 International Surface Air Lift (ISAL) Service
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293.4 Mail Preparation
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293.45 Sortation
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293.452 Presorted Mail — Direct Country Bundle Label
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Exhibit 293.452 ISAL Country Price Groups and Foreign Office of Exchange Codes
[Revise the entries for France and Mauritius to read as follows:]
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When effective, we will incorporate these revisions into the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
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