Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Accepting employee’s responsibility

Certificate of mailing 314.22

Forwarding ship passenger and crew mail 763.42

Insured mail 324.12

Registered mail 334.13

Return receipt 344.12

Accountable mail 324.11

Address corrections

Undeliverable mail, endorsements DMM 507

Addressee

Format 122

Illegible address DMM 507

Insufficient address 431; DMM 507

Addressing 122

Advance payment required 783

Aerosol containers DMM 601

Agriculture inspection stations and offices 723

Animals 138.1

Quarantine inspection 720

Availability

Certificate of mailing 312

IBRS 373.2

Insurance 322

International reply coupons 372.2

IPA 292.212

ISAL 293.31

Money orders, international postal 371.2

Priority Mail International 230

Registered mail 332

Backstamping mail 764.3

Blind persons, mail for (see Matter for the blind)

Business reply mail 132.2

International (see International Business Reply Service)

Canada

Eggs, mailing 138.32

Forwarding periodicals publications from 764.121

Labeling mail bound for 292.455

Money orders 371.52

Shortpaid postage 423.21; 732

Card specifications 142

Window envelopes 142.5

Catalogs

Marking 261.21

Postage rates ICL

Weight limits ICL

Categories, International Mail 140

Express Mail International 141.3; 220

First-Class Mail International 141.5; 240

General 141.1

Global Express Guaranteed 141.2; 210

Matter for the blind 270

Postcards 250

Priority Mail International 141.4; 230

Certificate of mailing 310

Availability 312

Bulk mailings 313.2

Description 311

Dried whole eggs 553.121

Fees 313

Forms 314.1

Processing requests 314

Claims

Indemnity (see Indemnity claims/payments)

Commodities and technical data 530

Complaints (see Inquiries)

Compressed gases 136

Consular and commercial invoices 570

Corrosive materials 136

Customer complaints (see Inquiries)

Customer identification number

ISAL 293.933 c.(2)

Customs information (U.S.) 710

Addressee 713.222; 713.23

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 c; 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

First-Class Mail International 123.61

IPA 123.62

M–bags 123.61

Priority Mail International 123.61; 232.4

Reporting of uncollected items 713.52

Returned items to the U.S. 713.43

Customs treatment

Clearances 712

Delivery fees 712

Foreign customs information 131.34

Forms (see Customs forms)

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

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)

Eggs

Certificate of mailing 553.12; 553.121; 553.2

Charges 552

Dried, export regulations for 550

Marking 553.11

Packing/packaging 138.32

Prohibitions 138.31

Endorsing mail (see Marking)

Envelope 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

Express Mail International 141.3

General export licenses 532

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 220

Indemnity claims 221.3; 935

Postage 222; ICL

Return receipt 221.4

Shortpaid mail 423.23

Weight and dimensions 223

Extra services

Availability ICL

Certificate of mailing 310

Fees 313; 323; 333; 343; 353; 371.3; 373.4; ICL

Insured mail 320

International money orders 371

International reply coupons 372

Registered mail 330

Restricted delivery 350

Return receipt 340

Fatty substances 131.52

Federal government (see Official mail)

Fees, special services ICL

Fictitious matter, name or address 132.1; DMM 601

Firearms 137

Firm mailing books for accountable mail 324.11

First-Class Mail International 141.3; 240

Customs forms 244.5

Description 241

Dimensions 243.2

Dutiable merchandise 244.51

Postage rates 242; ICL

Priority Mail International flat-rate envelope 230

Sealing 244.3

Weight limit 243.1

Flammable materials 136

Food 138.4

Foreign dispatch notes 744

Foreign Exchange Office List 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)

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

International insured mail 751

Parcels 764.13

Registered mail 752.13

Ship passenger and crew mail 763.4

Fragile articles 131.52

Gases, compressed 136

General export licenses 532

Restricted destinations 532.2

Shipper’s export declaration 532.3

General information 110

Global Express Guaranteed 210

Gold, mailing 134.1

Graphic matter 132

Guns 137

Honeybees, mailing 138.1

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

Express Mail International 221.3; 935

Filing claims 922.2

Inquiry 325

Insured parcels 933

International claims 920; 931.2; 935

Payments, exceptions to 932

Priority Mail International 933

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

Infectious and noninfectious substances 135

Inquiries 921

Damaged mail 921.1

Express Mail International 921

Foreign mail 921.542

Global Express Guaranteed 215.1

Insured and ordinary parcels 921.2

Nondelivery for 921.51

Processing 921.4

Express Mail International 921.2

Insured and ordinary parcels 921.2

Registered mail 921.2

Registered mail 921

Return receipt 921

Rifled parcels 921.53

Wrapper found without contents 921.54

Insufficient address 431; DMM 507

Insured mail 320

Availability 322; 751; ICL

Claims 922

Description 321

Express Mail International 221.3

Fees 323; ICL

Indemnity claims and payments 922; 930; 933

Limits of insurance 323.2; ICL

Mailing receipts 324.1

Marking 324.2

Parcels 751; 933

Processing requests 324

Return receipts 340

Value 323

International Business Reply Service (IBRS) 373

Foreign service 373.7

Format requirements 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

Air service 141.5

Cards and envelopes 142

Categories 140

Definition 141

Express Mail International 141.3; 220

First-Class Mail International 141.5; 240

Global Express Guaranteed 141.2; 210

Indemnity claims 930

Postcards and postal cards 250

Priority Mail International 141.4; 230

Reply cards and envelopes 132.2

Size limits 216.5; 223.2; 235.2; 243.2; 253; 263.2; 273.2; 292.3; 293.8

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; 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

Japan

Money orders 371.53

Jewelry, mailing 134.1

Knives 137; DMM 601

Labeling

Exempt human and animal specimens 135.33

Infectious substances 135.31

M–bags 264.2

Noninfectious substances 135.32

Liquids 131.52

Alcoholic 131

Combustible 136

Live organisms (see Animals)

Losses of mail (see Indemnity claims/payments)

Lottery matter DMM 601

M–bags 260

General 261.1

ISAL 262.2; 293.71

Marking 264.1

Payment methods 262.4

Postage rates ICL

Preparation for mailing 264

Size limits 263.2

Weight limits 263.1

Magnetized materials 136

Mail preparation 120

Certificate of mailing 314.2

Express Mail International 224

First-Class Mail International 244

IPA 292.4

M–bags 264

Matter for the blind 274

Priority Mail International 236

Postcards 254

Mailability 130

Animals 138.1

Dangerous goods 135; 136

Graphic matter 132

Improperly addressed mail 133

Infectious substances 135

International 131.2

Limits 131.1; 131.2

Mailer responsibility 131.4

Perishable matter 138

Plants 138.2

Preparation requirements 131.5

Printed matter 132

Prohibited and restricted articles 131.32

Radioactive materials 135.5

Return of mail 131.33

Seizure of mail 131.33

Special requirements 131.52; 135

Valuables 134

Written matter 132

Mailer responsibility

International mail 112

Mailability 131.4

Mailing receipts (see Insured mail, Registered mail service, and Certificate of mailing)

Map, world After Chapter 9

Marking

Animals 722.12

Customs declaration 324.2

Dried whole eggs 551; 553.12

First-Class Mail International 141.5; 244.2

Individual licenses 542.1

Infectious and noninfectious substances 135.3

Insured mail 324.2

IPA 292.42

Irregular mail 742.1

Licenses 532.41; 542.1

M–bags 264.1

Magnetic tapes 521.2

Matter for the blind 274.2

Plants 722.12

Postcards 254.2

Priority Mail International 236.2

Quarantine 722.12

Registered mail 334.2

Restricted delivery 354.1

Return receipt 344.2

Tobacco seeds and tobacco plants 563.1

Undeliverable mail 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

Military mail DMM 703.2, DMM 703.4

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

Nonpostage stamps, placement of 153

Nonmachinable surcharge 243.24

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

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

Extra services mail 440

Forwarding (see Forwarding mail)

Improperly prepared mail 430

Postmarking 410

Shortpaid mail 420

Unpaid mail 420

Oversized items 432; 433

Oxidizing agents 136

Packing/packaging mail 121; DMM 601

Eggs 138.3

Fatty substances 131.52

Fragile articles 131.52

Infectious and noninfectious substances 135.3

Liquids and oils 131.52; 136

Matter for the blind 274.4

Perishables 138

Powders 131.52

Priority Mail International 236.4

Pan American Sanitary Bureau mail 143.5

Paquebot 763

Perishables 138

Permit imprints 152.34; DMM 604

ISAL 293.751

Pickup Service

Express Mail International 222.24

Global Express Guarantee 213.3

Priority Mail International 234.6

Plants

Inspection station and offices 723

Quarantine inspection 720

Restrictions 138.21

Platinum, mailing 134.1

Poisons 136

Postage 150

Articles mailed aboard ships (Paquebot) 763

Eggs, dried whole 553.21

Express Mail International rates 222; ICL

First-Class Mail International 242

Foreign markings 741; 742.1

International reply coupons 372

IPA 292.2

ISAL 293.7

M–bags 262

Matter for the blind 272

OAS, General Secretariat 143.4

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

Priority Mail International 232.2; 233.2; ICL

Remailed items 154

Postal Qualified Wholesaler Program 610

Postcards 250

Attachments 254.5; 254.6

Folded cards 251.1

Nonpermitted attachments 254.6

Permitted attachments 254.5

Postage 252; ICL

Preparation requirements 254

Privately manufactured 251.4

Reply-paid cards 251.2

Specifications 251.3

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

Prepayment of postage 152.1

Priority Airmail Service, International (see International Priority Airmail Service)

Priority Mail Global Guaranteed (see Global Express Guaranteed)

Priority Mail International 230

Addressing 122

Charges for return 771.6

Customs declaration 123.1

Definition 141.4

Foreign customs information 123.61; 236.45

Forms required 123.61; 236.45; ICL

Forwarding 760; 764.13

General 231

Insured mail 751; 933

Marking 236.2

Mailing locations 234.5

Official mail 143

Postage 232.2; 233.2; ICL

Postmarking 410

Preparation requirements 236

Return charges 771.6

Sealing 236.3

Shortpaid 423.22

Size limits 235.2

Stamps, placement of 153

Undeliverable mail 770

Weight and size limits 235; ICL

Pyrophoric liquids, prohibited 136

Quarantined plants (see Plants)

Radioactive materials 135.5

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

Availability 332

Claims 922

Customs 711.3; 711.62

Declaration of value 334.12

Description 331

Dispatch 441

Fees 333; ICL

Inbound mail 752

Indemnity claims and payments 922; 922.2; 933; 934; 935

Inquiries from customers 920

Limits 333

Mailing receipt 334.1

Marking 334.2

Matter for the blind 334.42

Outbound mail 441

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

Packaging 121

Registered mail 334.12

Return receipt 334.12

Restricted delivery 350; 754

Availability 352

Description 351

Fee 353; ICL

Inbound mail 754.1

Processing requests 354

Restricted materials 131

Return address 122.2

Return charges

First-Class Mail International 771.5

Priority Mail International 771.6

Return receipt 340

Availability 342

Description 341

Express Mail International 221.4

Fees 343; ICL

Foreign, missing 753.2

Improperly completed or not received 344.3; 921.52

Inbound mail 753

Insured parcels 324.5; 342

Marking 344.2

Missing, foreign 753.2

Processing requests 344

Registered items 342

Rifling of mail (see Indemnity claims/payments)

M–bags 264.2

First-Class Mail International 244.3

Insured parcels 324.4

IPA 292.43

ISAL 293.92

Matter for the blind 274.3

Priority Mail International 236.3

Registered mail 334.4

SED (see Shipper’s Export Declaration)

Sender’s responsibility (see Responsibility of mailer)

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

Express Mail International 423.23

First-Class Mail International 423.21

Inbound 730

Outbound 420

Parcels 423.22

Return address 422.1; 422.2

Silver, mailing 134.1

Size limits

Canada (Global Package Link to) ICL

Express Mail International 223.2

First-Class Mail International 243

IBRS 373.5

ISAL 263.1; 293.8

M–bags 263.2

Matter for the blind 273.2

Postcards 253

Priority Mail International 235.2

Special drawing rights (SDR) 324.12

Stamps 152.2

Items mailed aboard ships (Paquebot) 763

Meter stamps 152.2

Placement of 153

Subscription availability information 114

Supplemental services 370

Tobacco seeds and tobacco plants 560

Export regulations 138.22; 561

Restrictions 560

Travelers checks, mailing 134.1

Undeliverable mail 770

Domestic 771

Endorsements 771.3; DMM 507

First-Class Mail International 771.5

Foreign–origin mail, inbound 772

Inbound mail 772

Outbound mail 771

Priority Mail International 771.6

U.S.–origin mail, outbound 771

Undersized items 432

Unpaid Mail (see Shortpaid and unpaid mail)

Validated export licenses 533

Valuable articles 134

Violence, matter inciting to 132.1; DMM 601

W X Y Z

Water–reactive substances 136

Weapons 137

Weight limits (see ICL)

Express Mail International 223.1

First-Class Mail International 243.1

IBRS 373.5

ISAL 263.1; 293.8

M–bags 263.1

Matter for the blind 273.1

Postcards 253.1

Priority Mail International 235.1

Window envelopes 142.5

World map After Chapter 9

Written matter 132