Effective March 25, 2021, the Postal Service™ is revising the Individual Country Listing for Japan in Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to note that Japan is updating its listing of prohibited items to include ammunition and psychotropic substances.
These revisions are based on a formal request that Japan made through the Universal Postal Union via International Bureau Circular 215, dated December 21, 2020.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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Individual Country Listings
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Japan
Country Conditions for Mailing
Prohibitions
[Add an entry in alphabetical order to read as follows:]
Ammunition.
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[Revise the entry that begins with “Narcotics …” to read as follows:]
Narcotics and psychotropic substances.
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Although effective March 25, 2021, the Postal Service will incorporate these revisions into a later edition of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Product Solutions, 3-25-21
