Effective January 22, 2017, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to reflect that the name of domestic Standard Mail® service (which appears in two instances in the IMM, but is not an international product) is changing to USPS Marketing Mail™ service.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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1 International Mail Services
110 General Information
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116 Trademarks of the USPS
116.1 USPS Trademarks in the IMM
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Exhibit 116.1 USPS Trademarks in the IMM
[Delete the entry for “Standard Mail.”]
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116.2 Common Law Marks or USPS Marks with Pending Trademark Applications in the IMM
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Exhibit 116.2 Common Law Marks or USPS Marks with Pending Trademark Applications in the IMM
[Add an entry for “USPS Marketing Mail” in alphabetical order.]
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7 Treatment of Inbound Mail
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760 Forwarding
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762 Mail of Domestic Origin
762.1 Addressee Moved to Another Country
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762.12 Mail Other Than Letters and Postcards
[In the first sentence, replace the term “Standard Mail” with “USPS Marketing Mail,” to read as follows:]
Domestic mail (Periodicals mail, USPS Marketing Mail, and Package Services) addressed to a domestic addressee who has moved to another country must not be forwarded to another country but must be returned to the sender.***
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We will incorporate these revisions into the next update of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Marketing, 1-5-17
