Effective March 1, 2018, the Postal Service™ is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to reflect a change to the Individual Country Listing (ICL) for Turkey.
As a result of a formal request made through the Universal Postal Union (UPU) via International Bureau Circular (IBC) 007, dated January 29, 2018, Turkey is adding a prohibition on all liquids. This prohibition also applies to mail in transit, so Turkey requests that mailers not send shipments that include liquids to or via Turkey.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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Individual Country Listings
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Turkey
Country Conditions for Mailing
Prohibitions
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Liquids of any type.
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Although effective March 1, 2018, we will incorporate this revision into a later edition of the online IMM (currently scheduled for May 7, 2018). The online IMM is available via Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification, Marketing, 3-1-18
