IMM Revision: Foreign Office of Exchange Code for IPA and ISAL Service to Great Britain

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 and for International Surface Air Lift^® (ISAL^®) items sent to Great Britain.

Periodically, the Postal Service receives such requests from foreign posts to facilitate operational needs. In this case, this foreign post requested these revisions 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 these revisions from mailers until September 3, 2013. Nonetheless, in order to expedite delivery, the Postal Service encourages mailers to implement these revisions immediately.

For consistency, we have included all of Great Britain’s localities (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and The Isle of Man) in both the IPA and ISAL listings (previously, they were listed only for IPA).

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 Great Britain to read as follows:]

 

Country Labeling Name	Foreign Office of Exchange Code	Price Group
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Great Britain (includes England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and The Isle of Man)	LAL	3
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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 entry for Great Britain to read as follows:]

 

Country Labeling Name	Foreign Office of Exchange Code	Price Group
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Great Britain (includes England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and The Isle of Man)	LAL	3
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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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