International Mail: Mailing Services Price Change

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identifier: "/us/fr/2011-2794"
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legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "International Mail: Mailing Services Price Change"
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title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "2011-2794"
section_name: "International Mail: Mailing Services Price Change"
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currency: "2011-02-09"
last_updated: "2011-02-09"
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generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Postal Service"
document_number: "2011-2794"
document_type: "rule"
publication_date: "2011-02-09"
agencies:
  - "Postal Service"
cfr_references:
  - "39 CFR Part 20"
fr_citation: "76 FR 7114"
fr_volume: 76
fr_action: "Final rule."
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#  International Mail: Mailing Services Price Change

**AGENCY:**

Postal Service <sub>TM</sub>

**ACTION:**

Final rule.

**SUMMARY:**

The Postal Service will revise *Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,* International Mail Manual (IMM®) for Mailing Services. This price change correlates to the Postal Service's January 13, 2011 filing of Docket No. R2011-2, Notice of Price Adjustment, with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC).

**DATES:**

April 17, 2011.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Rick Klutts at 813-877-0372.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

On January 13, 2011, the Postal Service filed a notice of Mailing Services price adjustments with the Postal Regulatory Commission to be effective on April 17, 2011. This final rule provides the mailing standards that would accompany new prices.

**First-Class Mail International**

The overall price increase for First-Class Mail International® is approximately 5.1 percent. More specifically, postcards increase by 1 percent, letter-size pieces increased by 1.9 percent, flat-size pieces increased by 4.0 percent, and package-size pieces increased by 7.8 percent.

**Postcards**

The price structure for postcards now includes only two separate price categories: Canada and Mexico, and all other countries. Previously, Canada and Mexico were priced separately. The price for postcards increases by approximately 1.0 percent.

**List of Subjects in 39 CFR Part 20**

Foreign relations, International postal services.

Accordingly, 39 CFR part 20 is amended as follows:

**39 CFR Part 20**

**PART 20 —[AMENDED]**

1. The authority citation for 39 CFR part 20 continues to read as follows:

**Authority:**

5 U.S.C. 552(a); 13 U.S.C. 301-307; 18 U.S.C. 1692-1737; 39 U.S.C. 101, 401, 403, 404, 407, 414, 416, 3001-3011, 3201-3219, 3403-3406, 3621, 3622, 3626, 3632, 3633, and 5001.

**39 CFR Part 20**

2. Revise the following sections of *Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service,* International Mail Manual (IMM), as follows:

**Index of Countries and Localities**

**Country Conditions for Mailing**

[Replace the current price tables in the Individual Country Listings with the following:]

| Weight not over | Price groups | 1 | 2 | 3, 4, 5 | 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | $0.80 | $0.80 | $0.98 | $0.98 |  |
| 2 | 1.08 | 1.36 | 1.82 | 1.76 |  |
| 3 | 1.36 | 1.92 | 2.66 | 2.54 |  |
| 3.5 | 1.64 | 2.48 | 3.50 | 3.32 |  |
| Postcards | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.98 | 0.98 |  |

| Weight not over | Price groups | 1 | 2 | 3, 4, 5 | 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | $1.08 | $1.08 | $1.30 | $1.30 |  |
| 2 | 1.34 | 1.65 | 2.17 | 2.13 |  |
| 3 | 1.60 | 2.22 | 3.04 | 2.96 |  |
| 4 | 1.86 | 2.79 | 3.91 | 3.79 |  |
| 5 | 2.12 | 3.36 | 4.78 | 4.62 |  |
| 6 | 2.38 | 3.93 | 5.65 | 5.45 |  |
| 7 | 2.64 | 4.50 | 6.52 | 6.28 |  |
| 8 | 2.90 | 5.07 | 7.39 | 7.11 |  |
| 12 | 3.94 | 6.71 | 9.18 | 8.86 |  |
| 16 | 4.98 | 8.35 | 10.97 | 10.61 |  |
| 20 | 6.02 | 9.99 | 12.76 | 12.36 |  |
| 24 | 7.06 | 11.63 | 14.55 | 14.11 |  |
| 28 | 8.10 | 13.27 | 16.34 | 15.86 |  |
| 32 | 9.14 | 14.91 | 18.13 | 17.61 |  |
| 36 | 10.18 | 16.55 | 19.92 | 19.36 |  |
| 40 | 11.22 | 18.19 | 21.71 | 21.11 |  |
| 44 | 12.26 | 19.83 | 23.50 | 22.86 |  |
| 48 | 13.30 | 21.47 | 25.29 | 24.61 |  |
| 52 | 14.34 | 23.11 | 27.08 | 26.36 |  |
| 56 | 15.38 | 24.75 | 28.87 | 28.11 |  |
| 60 | 16.42 | 26.39 | 30.66 | 29.86 |  |
| 64 | 17.46 | 28.03 | 32.45 | 31.61 |  |

| Weight not over | Price groups | 1 | 2 | 3, 4, 5 | 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | $1.72 | $1.72 | $1.72 | $1.72 |  |
| 2 | 1.98 | 2.29 | 2.59 | 2.53 |  |
| 3 | 2.24 | 2.86 | 3.46 | 3.34 |  |
| 4 | 2.50 | 3.43 | 4.33 | 4.15 |  |
| 5 | 2.76 | 4.00 | 5.20 | 4.96 |  |
| 6 | 3.02 | 4.57 | 6.07 | 5.77 |  |
| 7 | 3.28 | 5.14 | 6.94 | 6.58 |  |
| 8 | 3.54 | 5.71 | 7.81 | 7.39 |  |
| 12 | 4.56 | 7.33 | 9.60 | 9.14 |  |
| 16 | 5.58 | 8.95 | 11.39 | 10.89 |  |
| 20 | 6.60 | 10.57 | 13.18 | 12.64 |  |
| 24 | 7.62 | 12.19 | 14.97 | 14.39 |  |
| 28 | 8.64 | 13.81 | 16.76 | 16.14 |  |
| 32 | 9.66 | 15.43 | 18.55 | 17.89 |  |
| 36 | 10.68 | 17.05 | 20.34 | 19.64 |  |
| 40 | 11.70 | 18.67 | 22.13 | 21.39 |  |
| 44 | 12.72 | 20.29 | 23.92 | 23.14 |  |
| 48 | 13.74 | 21.91 | 25.71 | 24.89 |  |
| 52 | 14.76 | 23.53 | 27.50 | 26.64 |  |
| 56 | 15.78 | 25.15 | 29.29 | 28.39 |  |
| 60 | 16.80 | 26.77 | 31.08 | 30.14 |  |
| 64 | 17.82 | 28.39 | 32.87 | 31.89 |  |

We will publish an amendment to 39 CFR part 20 to reflect these changes.

Stanley F. Mires,

Chief Counsel, Legislative.