Effective August 2, 2015, 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 code for International Priority Airmail™ (IPA®) items sent to Malawi.
Periodically, the Postal Service receives such requests from foreign posts to facilitate operational needs. The foreign post in this case requested that these updates be implemented as soon as possible. However, in order to provide mailers the time needed to make necessary logistical and software changes, we are not requiring this change from mailers until August 2, 2015. Nonetheless, in order to expedite delivery, mailers are encouraged to implement these changes immediately.
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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 IPA Foreign Office of Exchange Codes and Price Groups
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Exhibit 292.45a IPA Foreign Office of Exchange Codes and Price Groups
[Revise the entry for Malawi to read as follows (updating the Foreign Office of Exchange Code):]
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Although effective August 2, 2015, we will incorporate this revision into the IMM currently scheduled for September 13, 2015. The online IMM is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
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