The Postal Service™ is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM®) to reflect the discontinuation of Priority Mail International Regional Rate® Boxes — Non-Published Rates and Priority Mail International Regional Rate Boxes, which were available only to commercial customers with an agreement with the Postal Service specifically for Priority Mail International Regional Rate Boxes.
On November 10, 2022, in Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) Docket No. MC2023-45, the Postal Service filed a request to remove Priority Mail International Regional Rate Boxes — Non-Published Rates and Priority Mail International Regional Rate Boxes Contracts from the Competitive Price List. In addition, on November 10, 2022, in PRC Docket No. MC2023-46, the Postal Service filed a request for changes to the Global Reseller Expedited Package Contracts product to remove mention of Priority Mail International Regional Rate Box.
On November 21, 2022, the Postal Service published notice of the filings in PRC Docket Nos. MC2023-45 and MC2023-46 in the Federal Register notices titled “International Product Change — Removal of Priority Mail International Regional Rates Boxes — Non-Published Rates and Priority Mail International Regional Rates Boxes Contracts” and “International Product Change — Global Reseller Expedited Package Contracts” (87 FR 70869).
As stated in the PRC’s Order No. 6378 issued in Docket Nos. MC2023-45 and MC2023-46 on December 20, 2022, the PRC favorably reviewed the requests, which have an effective date of January 22, 2023. The order is available on the PRC website at prc.gov.
Although these revisions will be published in the next edition of the online IMM, the standards are effective immediately.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)
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1 International Mail Services
110 General Information
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116 Trademarks of the USPS
116.1 USPS Trademarks in the IMM
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Exhibit 116.1
USPS Trademarks in the IMM
[Remove the entry for “Priority Mail International Regional Rate” from the list.]
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2 Conditions for Mailing
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230 Priority Mail International
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232 Eligibility
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232.5 Priority Mail International Parcels
[Revise 232.5 by removing the title of 232.51 and the title and text of 232.52 — the revised 232.5 will contain only the text from 232.51.]
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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,
Product Solutions, 2-23-23
