Effective April 25, 2019, the Postal Service™ is revising the Individual Country Listing for Vietnam in Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to note that Vietnam is updating its listing of prohibited items to include electric stun guns and knives, as well as narcotics and psychotropic substances.
These revisions are based on a formal request that VNPost made through the Universal Postal Union via International Bureau Circular 42, dated March 18, 2019.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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Individual Country Listings
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Vietnam
Country Conditions for Mailing
Prohibitions
[Revise the first entry to read as follows (adding electric stun guns and knives):]
Arms of all kinds, electric stun guns, knives, munitions, war material, and accessories.
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[Add an entry in alphabetical order to read as follows:]
Narcotics, psychotropic substances.
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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
