IMM Revision: Foreign Office of Exchange Codes for IPA Service to Ascension, Bhutan, Falkland Islands, and Saint Helena

Effective November 4, 2013, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM^®) Exhibit 292.452 to update the foreign office of exchange codes for International Priority Airmail™ (IPA^®) items sent to Ascension, Bhutan, Falkland Islands, and Saint Helena.

Periodically, the Postal Service receives 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 November 4, 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 following entries to read as follows (updating the foreign office of exchange codes):]

 

Country Labeling Name	Foreign Office of Exchange Code	Price Group
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Ascension, via Great Britain	LAL	12
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Bhutan, via Great Britain	LAL	15
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Falkland Islands, via Great Britain	LAL	13
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Saint Helena, via Great Britain	LAL	15
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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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Pricing, 9-19-13