Effective June 7, 2018, the Postal Service™ is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to reflect changes to the Individual Country Listing for Colombia.
As a result of a formal request made through the Universal Postal Union via International Bureau Circular 55, dated May 7, 2018, Colombia is revising the list of Prohibitions.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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Individual Country Listings
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Colombia
Country Conditions for Mailing
Prohibitions
[Revise the list of Prohibitions to read as follows (rewording the first entry, adding several entries, moving one entry from the list to be a Note, and keeping several entries as they are — for this article, we are using bold to indicate the revised and new entries):]
Cash; coins; bank notes; molds for bank notes; pieces of paper representing real bank notes or any other bearer bonds; coinage machines; other articles of value such as platinum, gold, or silver, whether manufactured or not; precious stones; jewelry; other valuable articles; and counterfeit and pirated articles.
Coloring powders and similar.
Documents having the character of current and personal correspondence exchanged between persons other than the sender and the addressee or persons living with them.
Fats.
Live animals, and dead animals not stuffed. Exemptions: Bees, leeches, and silkworms, as well as parasites and destroyers of noxious insects exchanged between officially recognized scientific institutions.
Perishable infectious biological substances.
Perishable noninfectious biological substances.
Radioactive materials.
Note: Colombia prohibits many types of goods, or subjects them to an import license; therefore, the sender should ascertain from the addressee before mailing whether the contents are permitted and whether the addressee holds the necessary documents.
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The Postal Service will incorporate these revisions into the next edition of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification, Marketing, 6-7-18
