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Info on our Wonderful Postal System - IceWizard - 06-11-2016
Treatment of Inbound Mail
710 U.S. Customs Information
711 Customs Examination of Mail Believed to Contain Dutiable or Prohibited Articles
711.1 What Is Subject to Examination All mail originating outside the customs territory of the United States
(i.e., outside the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico) is subject to customs examination, except the following:
..........a. Mail addressed to ambassadors and ministers (chiefs of diplomatic missions) of foreign countries.
..........b. Letter mail known to contain or believed to contain only correspondence or documents addressed to diplomatic missions or to the officers of diplomatic missions; to international organizations designated by the president as public international organizations pursuant to the International Organizations Immunities Act; and other mail addressed to such international organizations pursuant to instructions issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
..........c. Mail known to contain or believed to contain only official documents addressed to officials of the U.S. government.
..........d. Refer to ASM 274.94 for examination procedures to be followed for mail addressed for delivery in the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
711.2 Treatment of Mail Believed to Contain Dutiable or Prohibited Articles
711.21 Treatment at Exchange Offices
711.211 Submission to Customs Officers
Mail believed to contain articles liable to customs duty or prohibited articles is submitted immediately to a customs location as identified in 711.62, except when exchange offices are authorized to redispatch such mail to designated distribution offices for customs treatment.
711.212 Tag 10
Exchange offices that redispatch mail for submission to customs offices will attach Tag 10, Supposed Liable to Customs Duty (previously Label 81), to the label holders or hasps of sacks or pouches. Tag 10 is a reusable pink slotted tag, bearing the words This sack contains mail supposed liable to customs duty.
711.22 Treatment at Distribution Offices
711.221 Submission to Customs Officers
Distribution offices will submit mail believed to contain articles liable to customs duty or prohibited articles to customs officers as soon as possible after receipt.
711.222 Return of Tag 10
Quantities of reusable Tags 10 that have been removed from sacks containing such mail should be returned periodically. These tags should be sent to the postmaster at either New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle, or Miami, as appropriate from a geographic standpoint.
711.23 Priority Treatment of Airmail[/b]
Airmail items receive preferential customs treatment and are submitted to customs separately from surface mail. Upon return from customs, airmail items will be dispatched by air, if that can expedite delivery.
711.3 Examination of Registered Mail and Sealed Letters
The postmaster or other designated employee must be present when Registered Mail and sealed letters (except unregistered sealed letter mail bearing a green customs label) are opened by customs officers for examination. After customs treatment, the customs officer will repack and reseal the mail.
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RE: Info on our Wonderful Postal System - germanshepherd - 06-17-2016
It would be nice if they could just fix their scan and tracking system, among the many problems are : no updates, out of order sequence time stamps, updates from days after the package arrives, etc. Sometimes I will think a package is lost since scan activity has stopped, only to have it turn up at my front door. Then, a fussilade of scans hit the minute I sign from days before. Totally wacky.
RE: Info on our Wonderful Postal System - luckydate - 06-23-2016
I have reported a package lost that was scanned as delivered, filed an insurance claim, been issued a check and about 5 days later received the missing package! Ridiculous