Effective April 25, 2019, the Postal Service™ is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to reflect changes to Exhibit 292.45a and Exhibit 293.45a based on a revision to the foreign office of exchange code for Monaco.
Periodically, the Postal Service receives such requests from foreign posts to facilitate operational needs. Monaco’s postal administration formally requested, through the Universal Postal Union via International Bureau Circular 158, dated November 5, 2018, an update to the foreign office of exchange code for closed dispatches, which affects International Priority Airmail® (IPA®) service and International Surface Air Lift® (ISAL®) service items sent to Monaco. Monaco formerly received closed dispatches directly, using its own foreign office of exchange code, but now mailers must send mail to Monaco in dispatches through France’s office of exchange.
In order to provide mailers the time needed to make necessary logistical and software changes, the Postal Service is providing 90 days’ advance notice before the effective date of the change, July 23, 2019. Nonetheless, in order to expedite delivery, the Postal Service encourages mailers to implement these revisions before the effective date.
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 entries for France and New Zealand to read as follows (for France, removing the marker for footnote 2 and adding “(including Corsica and Monaco)” to the entry, and for New Zealand, revising the marker for footnote 3 to footnote 2); remove the entry for Monaco; and in the footnotes, remove note 2 and renumber note 3 to note 2, to read as follows:]
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2. For all destinations to New Zealand other than Cook Islands. For Cook Islands, see the entry for Cook Islands in this exhibit.
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293 International Surface Air Lift (ISAL) Service
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293.4 Mail Preparation
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293.45 ISAL Foreign Office of Exchange Codes and Price Groups
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Exhibit 293.45a
ISAL Foreign Office of Exchange Codes and Price Groups
[Revise the entries for France and New Zealand to read as follows (for France, removing the marker for footnote 1 and adding “(including Corsica and Monaco)” to the entry, and for New Zealand, revising the marker for footnote 2 to be an asterisk); remove the entry for Monaco; and in the footnotes, remove note 1 and revise note 2 to have an asterisk rather than “2,” to read as follows:]
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*For all destinations to New Zealand other than Cook Islands. For Cook Islands, see the entry for Cook Islands in this exhibit.
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Although effective on April 25, 2019, the Postal Service will incorporate these revisions into a later edition of the online IMM (following the May 6, 2019, edition). The IMM is available via Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification, Marketing, 4-25-19
