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Postal Explorer > International Mail Manual - Issue 32 > Index
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Index
A
Accepting employer's responsibility
Certificate of mailing 314.22
Forwarding ship passenger and crew mail 763.42
Insured mail 324.12
Recorded delivery 364.22
Registered mail 334.13
Return receipt 344.12
Accountable mail 324.11
Address corrections
Undeliverable mail, endorsements DMM 507
Addressee
Aerogrammes 251.2
Format 122
Illegible address DMM 507
Insufficient address 431; DMM 507
Addressing 122
Advance payment required 783
Aerogrammes 251.2
Definition 251.21
International mail categories 140
Postage 251.22
Preparation requirements 254
Size limits 253.2
Weight limits 253.1
Aerosol containers DMM 601
Agriculture inspection stations and offices 723
Airmail 141.5
Aerogrammes (see Aerogrammes)
Availability 141.5
Customs examination, priority treatment 711.23
Description 141.5
IPA (see International Priority Air Mail)
Marking 141.5
Postage rates ICL
Printed matter 141.5
Stamps 152.2
Animals 139.1
Quarantine inspection 720
Availability
Airmail 141.5
Certificate of mailing 312
Global Priority Mail 231.1
IBRS 373.2
Insurance 322
International reply coupons 372.2
IPA 292.212
ISAL 293.31
Money orders, international postal 371.2
Registered mail 332
B
Backstamping mail 764.3
Biological substances 135.1
Blind persons, mail for (see Matter for the blind)
Books and sheet music
Description 295.1
Postage rates ICL
Bulk mailings (see also Publishers' periodicals)
Labeling requirements 294.42
M-bags 260
Requirements 294.42
Sacking requirements 294.42
Sortation 294.41
Business reply mail 132.2
International (see International Business Reply Service)
C
Canada
Aerogrammes 251.22
Eggs, mailing 139.32
Forwarding periodicals publications from 764.121
Inquiries 920
Labeling mail bound for 292.455
Money orders 371.52
Publishers' periodicals 294.25
Periodicals publications, forwarding 764.121
Shortpaid postage 423.21; 732
Cards 142
Catalogs
Marking 261.21
Postage rates ICL
Weight limits ICL
Categories, International Mail 140
Aerogrammes 141.5
Airmail 141.5
Economy Mail 141.6
Global Express Mail 141.3
Letters and letter packages 141.5
Matter for the blind 270
Parcels 141.5; 141.6
Postcards 250
Certificate of mailing 310
Availability 312
Bulk mailings 313.2
Description 311
Dried whole eggs Exhibit 553.121
Fees 313
Forms 314.1
Processing requests 314
Claims
Indemnity (see Indemnity claims/payments)
Initiation 924
Commodities and technical data 530
Complaints (see Inquiries)
Compressed gases 136
Consular and commercial invoices 570
Copyright violations DMM 608
Corrosive materials 136
Customer complaints (see Inquiries)
Customer identification number
ISAL 293.943
U.S. Customs Information 710
Addressee 713.222; 713.23
Airmail, priority treatment of 711.23
Assessment of duty in foreign countries 713.45
Audio-visual equipment 713.44
Collection of fees 712.12
Customs clearance and delivery fee 712
Customs examination of mail 711
Customs shipments in bad order 711.512
Delivery of dutiable articles 711; 713
Detached customs mail entry 713.54
Detection and dispatch of dutiable mail 713.1
Directory of offices 711.62
Dutiable articles 711; 713
Duty, payment of 713.4
Failure to receive customs treatment 711.6
Fees for deliveries 712
Forms (see Customs forms)
Forwarding 713.3; 764.24
Marking 711.52
Notification of delivery 713.212
Offices 711.62
Payment of duty 713.4
Prohibited articles 711.2
Recording requirements 713.46
Refund of duty 713.6
Registered mail 711.3
Repacking after customs examination 711.51
Reporting requirements 713.46
Return of items 713.43
Samples for advisory information 711.4
Sealed mail, examination of 711.3
U.S. customs offices, directory of 711.62
Uncollected items 713.5
Customs forms 123
Audio-visual equipment, return of 713.44
Dutiable mail 713.32
Detached declaration forms 435
Global Priority Mail 233.2
IPA 123.62
Letters and letter packaging Exhibit 123.61
M-bags Exhibit 123.61
Parcel post Exhibit 123.61
Reporting of uncollected items 713.52
Returned items to the U.S. 713.43
Customs treatment
Clearances 712
Delivery fees 712
Dutiable merchandise 231.2
Foreign customs information 131.34
Forms (see Customs forms)
D
Damage to mail (see Indemnity claims/payments)
Dangerous goods 135; 136
Dead mail (see also Undeliverable mail) 770
Delivery service
Banks, parcels addressed through 743
Domestic origin 762
Dutiable mail 713.2
Foreign dispatch notes 744
Foreign origin 764
Forwarding (see Forwarding mail)
Insured parcels 751.2
Parcels addressed through banks or other organizations 743
Recorded 755
Registered mail 752
Restricted delivery 754
Ship mail 763
Delivery to addressee only (see Restricted delivery)
Direct sacks of printed matter to one addressee (see M-bags)
Directory service 765; DMM 507
Dispatch notes, foreign 744
Dispatch of mail
Registered mail 441
Drawback arrangements 580
Dutiable merchandise (see Customs)
E
Education purposes
Books (see Books and sheet music)
Classroom publications 294.22
Eggs
Certificate of mailing 553.12; Exhibit 553.121; 553.2
Charges 552
Dried, export regulations for 550
Marking 553.11
Packing/packaging 139.32
Endorsing mail (see Marking)
Envelopes
Borders 142.6
Colors 142.1
Quality 142.2
Shape 142.3
Size 142.4
Specifications 142
Window envelopes 142.5
Explosive material 136
Export regulations
Certificate of mailing dried whole eggs 553.12
Commodities and technical data 530
Consular and commercial invoices 570
Drawback arrangement 580
Eggs, dried whole 550
General export licenses 532
Global Express Mail 141.3
Individual licenses 541.1
Licenses 531; 541
Munitions 540
Permits for tobacco seeds and tobacco plants 560
Shipper's export declaration 520
Technical data 530; 540
Tobacco seeds and tobacco plants 560
Validated export licenses 533
Express Mail International Service (see Global Express Mail)
F
Fatty substances 131.52
Federal government (see Official mail)
Fees, special services ICL
Fictitious matter, name or address 132.1; DMM 601
Firearms 138
Firm mailing books for accountable mail 324.11
Flammable materials 136
Food 139.4
Foreign dispatch notes 744
Foreign Exchange Office List Exhibit 292.452
Foreign mail (see also Official correspondence)
Advance payment 783
IBRS 373.7
Postage payment 781
Reply cards (see Business reply mail)
Residency 782.1
Foreign reply-paid cards (see Business reply mail)
Forms
Commercial forms 523
Customs (see Customs forms)
Foreign inquiries 928.2
Postage refunds 942.3
Shipper's export declaration 521.1
Forwarding mail 760
Backstamping 764.3
Customs entry forms 764.24
Directory service 765
Domestic-origin mail 762
Dutiable mail 713.3
Foreign mail 761.1
Foreign-origin mail 764
Insured mail, international 751
International insured mail 751
Parcels 764.13
Registered mail 752
Ship passenger and crew mail 763.4
Fragile articles 131.52
G
Gases, compressed 136
General export licenses 532
GTDR 532.14
GUS 532.15
Marking 532.41
Processing 532.42
Purpose 532.11
Restricted destinations 532.2
Shipper's export declaration 532.3
General information 110
Global Express Guaranteed 210
Global Express Mail 220
Claims 924.2
Customs forms 224.3
Description 221
Indemnity claims 221.3; 931.21; 935
Inquiries 922.2
Insurance 221.3
Loss of mail 922.2
Payments 935; 942
Postage 222; ICL
Preparation requirements 224
Refunds 942
Return receipt 221.4
Shortpaid mail 423.23
Size limits 223
Weight and size limits 223
Global Priority Mail 230
Gold, mailing 134.1
Graphic matter 132
Guns 138
H
Honeybees, mailing 139.1
I
IBRS (see International Business Reply Service)
Immoral or obscene articles 132.1
Improperly addressed mail 133
Improperly prepared mail 430
Inbound mail
Domestic origin 762
Foreign origin 764
Forwarding (see Forwarding mail)
Insured parcels 751
Items mailed abroad by or on behalf of senders in the U.S. 780
Paquebot 763
Registered mail 752
Restricted delivery 754
Return receipt 753
Undeliverable mail 770
Indemnity claims/payments 930
Exceptions to payments 932
Filing claims 924
Global Express Mail 221.3; 931.21; 935
Inquiry 325
Insured parcel post 933
International claims 920; 931.2; 935
Parcel post 933
Payments, exceptions to 932
Registered mail 335; 934
Index of Countries and Localities After World Map Index
Individual Country Listings (ICL) After Countries and Localities Index
Individual export licenses 540
Exemptions 541.2
Government shipments 541.22
Marking 542.1
Processing 542.2
Inquiries 920
Charges 927
Damaged mail 928.21
Delay 928.23; 928.241
Foreign mail 928.2
Global Express Mail 922.2
Insured parcels 922.1; 928.2
Nondelivery for 928.11
Processing 928
Global Express Mail 922.2; 924.2
Insured and ordinary parcels 924.1
Registered mail 924.2
Registered mail 922.21
Return receipt 928.12
Rifled parcels 928.13
Telegraphic inquiries 927.2
Wrapper found without contents 928.14
Insufficient address 431; DMM 507
Insured mail 320
Availability 322; 751; ICL
Claims 924.1
Description 321
Fees 323; ICL
Global Express Mail 221.3
Inbound mail, inquiries 928.21
Indemnity claims and payments 923; 925; 930
Inquiries of customers
Inbound mail 928.21
Outbound mail 928.21
Limits of insurance 323.2; ICL
Mailing receipts 324.1
Marking 324.2
Outbound mail 928.21
Parcels 751; 933
Processing requests 324
Return receipts 340
Value 323
International Business Reply Service (IBRS) 373
Availability 373.2
Description 373.1
Distribution 373.1
Fees 373.4
Foreign service 373.7
Format requirements Exhibit 373.6, 373.7
IBRS distributors 373.3
Size and weight requirements 373.5
International claims and inquiries 920
International customized mail 297
International mail
Aerogrammes 251.2
Air service 141.5
Cards 251.1
Categories 140
Definition 141
Envelopes 142
Global Express Mail 220
Indemnity claims 930
Parcel post 141.5; 141.6
Postcards 251.1
Reply cards 132.2
Size limits 234; 243; 253.2
International postal money orders (see Money orders, international postal)
International Priority Airmail Service (IPA) 292
International reply coupons 372
Availability 372.2
Description 372.1
Marking 372.4
Processing requests 372.4
Rate of exchange 372.3
Selling price 372.3
International Surface Air Lift (ISAL) Service 293; Exhibit 293.71
IPA (see International Priority Airmail Service)
Irregular mail 740
ISAL (see International Surface Air Lift (ISAL) Service)
Items mailed aboard ships (Paquebot) 763
J
Japan
Money orders 371.53
Jewelry, mailing 134.1
K
Knives 138; DMM 601
L
Labeling
M-bags 264.2
Letter-post 240
Letters and letter packages 241.1
Customs forms 244.5
Definition 241.1
Description 241.1
Dutiable merchandise 244.5
Forms 244.5
Global Priority Mail 230
Marking 244.2
Packaging 244.4
Postage rates 242; ICL
Preparation requirements 244
Sealing 244.3
Size limits 243.2
Weight limits 243.1
Liquids 131.52
Alcoholic 137
Combustible 136
Live organisms (see Animals)
Losses of mail (see Indemnity claims/payments)
Lottery matter DMM 601
M
M-bags 260
Description 261.1
ISAL 262.1; 293.2
Marking 264.1
Payment methods 262.2
Postage rates ICL
Preparation for mailing 264
Size limits 263.2
Weight limits 263.1
Magnetized materials 136
Mail preparation (see Preparation requirements)
Mailability 130
Animals 139.1
Biological substances 135.3; 139
Dangerous goods 135; 136
Improperly addressed mail 133
International 131.2
Limits 131.1; 131.2
Mailer responsibility 131.4
Perishable matter 139
Plants 139.2
Preparation requirements 131.5
Printed matter 132
Radioactive materials 135.6
Restricted articles 131.32
Return of mail 131.33
Seizure of mail 131.33
Special requirements 131.52; 135.3
Valuables 134
Written matter 132
Mailer responsibility
International mail 112
Mailability 131.4
Mailing receipts (see Insured mail) (see Registered mail service) (see
Certificate of mailing)
Marking
Airmail 141.5
Animals 722.12
Biological substances 135.4
Customs declaration 324.2
Dried whole eggs 551; 553.12
Individual licenses 542.1
Insured mail 324.2
IPA 292.42
Irregular mail 742.1
ISAL 293.92
Letter and letter packages 244.2
Licenses 532.41; 542.1
M-bags 264.1
Magnetic tapes 521.2
Matter for the blind 274.2
Parcel post 284.2
Plants 722.12
Postcards 254.2
Quarantine 722.12
Recorded delivery 364.2
Registered mail 334.2
Restricted delivery 354.1
Return receipt 344.2
Returned mail 771.3
Tobacco seeds and tobacco plants 563.1
Undeliverable mail 772.1; DMM 507
Matches 136
Matter for the blind 270
Description 271
Marking 274.2
Packaging 274.4
Postage rates 272; ICL
Preparation requirements 274
Sealing 274.3
Size limits 273.2
Weight limit 273.1
Meter stamps 152.2
Money, mailing 134.1
Money orders, international postal 371
Authorization form 371.41
Availability 371.2
Canadian 371.52
Description 371.1
Fees 371.3; ICL
Form, authorization 371.41
Inquiries 371.7
Japanese 371.53
Refunds 371.72, 371.8
Munitions 138; 540
N
News agent (see Publishers' periodicals)
Nonpostage stamps, placement of 153
Nonmachinable surcharge 243.24
O
OAS (Organization of American States) 143.4
Official correspondence 115
Distribution, transportation and 115.13
Foreign individuals 115.3
Foreign postal authorities 115.2
International money orders 115.15
Investigations 115.14
Operations 115.11
Permitted correspondence 115.21
Policy and representation 115.12
Prohibited correspondence 115.22
Transportation and distribution 115.13
Official mail 143
Airmail (see Airmail)
Federal government 143.1
Former presidents and surviving spouses 143.3
International 143.1
OAS General Secretariat 143.4
Pan American Sanitary Bureau mail 143.5
Postal Service 143.2
Open-panel envelopes 142.5
Organization of American States (OAS) 143.4
Outbound mail
Delivery, recorded 442
Dutiable mail at delivery office 713
Forwarding (see Forwarding mail)
Improperly prepared mail 430
Postmarking 410
Recorded delivery 442
Shortpaid mail 420
Special services mail 440
Unpaid mail 420
Oversized items 432; 433
Oxidizing agents 136
P
Packing/packaging mail 121; DMM 601
Biological substances 135.3; 139
Eggs 139.3
Fatty substances 131.52
Fragile articles 131.52
Liquids, oils, powders 131.52; 136
Matter for the blind 274.4
Parcel post 284.4
Perishables 139
Pan American Sanitary Bureau mail 143.5
Paquebot 763
Parcel post 280
Addressing 122
Charges for return 771.6
Customs declaration »123.1
Foreign customs information 284.45
Forms required 284.45; ICL
Forwarding 760; 764.13
General 281
Insured mail 751; 933
International mail categories 141.5; 141.6
Location of mailings 282.2
Marking 284.2
Mailing locations 282.2
Official mail 143
Postage 282; ICL
Postmarking 410
Preparation requirements 284
Return charges 771.6
Sealing 284.3
Shortpaid 423.22
Size limits 283.2
Stamps, placement of 153
Undeliverable mail 770
Weight and size limits 283; ICL
Periodicals publications (see Publishers' periodicals)
Perishable biological substances 135.1; 139
Permit imprints Exhibit 152.3; DMM 604
ISAL 293.751
Pickup Service
Express Mail Service 216.352; 222.24
Global Express Guarantee 213.3
Global Priority Mail 236.3
Parcel Post 282.3
Plants
Inspection station and offices 723
Prohibited 139.2
Quarantine inspection 720
Restrictions 139.2
Platinum, mailing 134.1
Poisons 136
Postage 150
Aerogrammes 252
Airmail 141.5
Articles mailed aboard ships (Paquebot) 763
Eggs, dried whole 553.21
Foreign markings 741; 742.1
Global Express Mail rates 222; ICL
Global Priority Mail 232
International reply coupons 372
IPA 292.2
ISAL 293.7; Exhibit 293.71
Letters and letter packages 242
M-bags 262
Matter for the blind 272
OAS, General Secretariat 143.4
Parcel post ICL
Payment methods 152
Permit imprint 152.3; DMM 604
Placement of postage 153
Postcards 252
Precanceled stamps 152.2
Prepayment 152.1
Printed matter ICL
Publishers' periodicals 294.2
Rates ICL
Refunds 940
Remailed items 154
Shortpaid mail 731
Stamps 152.2; 153
Postal Qualified Wholesaler Program 610
Postcards 250
Attachments 251.15; 251.16
Description 251
Folded cards 251.11
IPA 292
Marking 254.2
Nonpermitted attachments 251.16
Permitted attachments 251.15
Postage 252; ICL
Preparation requirements 254
Privately manufactured 251.14
Reply cards 251.12
Size limits 253.2
Specifications 251.33
Weight limits 253.1
Postmarking
Articles mailed aboard ships (Paquebot) 763
Certificate of mailing 310
Insured Mail 324.2; 324.3
International reply coupons 372
Outbound mail POM 443.3
Registered mail 334.2; 334.3
Return receipt 753.1
Powders 131.52
Precanceled postage stamps 152.2
Precious stones or items, mailing 134.1
Preparation requirements 120
Aerogrammes 254
Certificate of mailing 314.2
Global Express Mail 224
Global Priority Mail 233
IPA 292.4
Letters and letter packages 244
M-bags 264
Matter for the blind 274
Parcel post 284
Postcards 254
Prepayment of postage 152.1
Priority Airmail Service, International (see International Priority Airmail
Service)
Priority Mail Global Guaranteed (see Global Express Guaranteed)
Publications, mailing (see Books and sheet music) (see
Publishers' periodicals)
Publishers' periodicals 294
Labeling 294.42
Mailing locations 294.6
Postage 294.2
Sacking requirements 294.42
Pyrophoric liquids, prohibited 136
Q
Quarantined plants (see Plants)
R
Radioactive materials 135.6
Recorded delivery »360; 442; 755
Refunds
Applications 943
Customs clearance 712.5; 713.6
Delivery fee 712.3
International reply coupons 372
Postage 940
Refused by sender 771.71
Dutiable mail 772.2
Registered mail service 330; 441; 934
Availability 332
Claims 924.1
Customs 711.3; 711.61
Declaration of value 334.12
Description 331
Fees 333; ICL
Inbound mail 752; 928.24
Indemnity claims and payments 924; 933; 934; 935
Inquiries of customers 920
Inbound mail 928.21; 928.24
Outbound mail 928.21
Limits 333
Mailing receipt 334.1
Marking 334.2
Matter for the blind 334.42
Outbound mail 441; 928.21
Postmarking 334.3
Processing requests 334
Registration number 334.1
Return receipt 340
Sealing 334.4
Treatment of mail 441; 752.13
Remailed articles, postage for 154; 771.4
Reply cards (see also Business reply mail) 434
Reply coupons
International (see International reply coupons)
Report of mailings 785
Reporting mail loss 910
Responsibility of mailer 112
Certificate of mailing 314.21
Insured mail 324.13
International mail 121
Registered mail 334.12
Return receipt 334.11
Restricted delivery 350; 754
Availability 352
Description 351
Fee 353; ICL
Inbound mail 754.1
Processing requests 354
Treatment of inbound mail 754.1
Restricted materials 137
Return address 122.2
Return charges 771.5; 771.6
Return receipt 340
Availability 342
Defective or not received 928.12
Description 341
Fees 343; ICL
Foreign, missing 753.2
Global Express Mail 221.4
Improperly completed 344.4
Inbound mail 753
Insured mail 342
Insured parcels 324.4
Marking 344.2
Missing 753.2
Processing requests 344
Treatment of mail 752.13
Rifling of mail (see Indemnity claims/payments)
S
Sacking requirements
ISAL 292.45
M-bags 264.2
Sealing
Insured parcels 324.4
IPA 292.43
ISAL 293.93
Letters and letter packages 244.3
Matter for the blind 274.3
Parcel post 284.3
Registered mail 334.4
SED (see Shipper's Export Declaration)
Sender's responsibility (see Responsibility of mailer)
Sheet music (see Books and sheet music)
Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) 520
Commercial forms 523
Description 521
Disposal 525
Exceptions to requirements 522.2
Forms 523; 524
Handling 525
Magnetic tapes 521.2
Requirements, handling 522
Shortpaid and unpaid mail
Canada 732
Credit 423.3
Global Express Mail 423.23
Inbound 730
Letters and letter packages 423.21
Outbound 420
Parcels 423.22
Return address 422.1; 422.2
Silver, mailing 134.1
Size limits
Aerogrammes 253.22
Canada, Global Package Link to ICL
Global Express Mail 223.2
Global Priority Mail 234.2
IBRS 373.5
ISAL 263; 293.8
Letters and letter packages 243
M-bags 263.2
Matter for the blind 273.2
Parcel post 283.2
Postcards 253.2
Special drawing rights (SDR) Exhibit 324.22
Special services
Availability ICL
Certificate of mailing 310
Fees 313; ICL
Insured mail 320
International money orders 371
International reply coupons 372
Recorded delivery »360
Registered mail 330
Restricted delivery 350
Return receipt 340
Stamps 152.2
Items mailed aboard ships (Paquebot) 763
Meter stamps 152.2
Placement of 153
Subscription availability information 114
Supplemental services 370
T
Tobacco seeds and tobacco plants 560
Export regulations 139.22; 561
Restrictions 560
Travelers checks, mailing 134.1
U
Undeliverable mail 770
Domestic 771
Endorsements 771.3; DMM 507
Foreign-origin mail, inbound 772
Inbound mail 772
Outbound mail 771
Parcel post 771.6
U.S.-origin mail, outbound 771
Undersized items 432
Unpaid Mail (see Shortpaid and unpaid mail)
V
Validated export licenses 533
Valuable articles 134
Violence, matter inciting to 132.1; DMM 601
W X Y Z
Water-reactive substances 136
Weapons 138
Weight limits ICL
Aerogrammes 253.1; ICL
Global Express Mail 223.1
Global Priority Mail 234.2
IBRS 373.5
ISAL 263; 293.8
Letters and letter packages 243.1
M-bags 263.1
Matter for the blind 273.1
Parcel post ICL
Postcards 253.1
Window envelopes 142.5
Written matter 132
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