Effective July 7, 2014, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to correctly identify the “parent country” for Tokelau as being only Western Samoa. (A “parent country” is one that governs or rules the “child country” as a territory.) Currently, the entry also includes Union Group as an alternative, but we will remove that text.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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Index of Countries and Localities
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[Revise the entry for “Tokelau (Union Group) (Western Samoa)” to read as follows (removing “Union Group”):]
Tokelau (Western Samoa)
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When effective, we will incorporate this revision into the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
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