[NHCOLL-L:4720] RE: Possible change in USPS International Mailing Standards???

[Trock, Debra]

Rich, Judith, et al,

I checked with our mailroom and they said that the paper tape rule applies to registered mail, and that it always has been that way.  She was checking to see if anything had changed.

Deb


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Judith Price
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:30 AM
To: Rabeler, Richard; NHCOLL-L at lists.yale.edu
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:4718] RE: Possible change in USPS International Mailing Standards???

Thanks, Rich, I hope you don't mind me posting this on the list.

Judith

-----Original Message-----
From: Rabeler, Richard [mailto:rabeler at umich.edu] 
Sent: February 26, 2010 11:25 AM
To: Judith Price
Subject: RE: [NHCOLL-L:4717] Possible change in USPS International
Mailing Standards???

Judith:

The ones that we have gotten have no such "stamps".

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: Judith Price [mailto:JPRICE at mus-nature.ca] 
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 11:24 AM
To: Rabeler, Richard
Subject: RE: [NHCOLL-L:4717] Possible change in USPS International
Mailing Standards???

And those of us outside the USA would need to know if this same stamp is
applied to incoming parcels!

Judith

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Rabeler, Richard
Sent: February 26, 2010 11:17 AM
To: 'nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu'
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:4717] Possible change in USPS International Mailing
Standards???

Colleagues:

For those of you sending packages from the US to international
destinations via the United States Postal Service, you might be
interested in my recent experience.

We have been told by our University Mail Service (and by extension, our
local Post Office where they drop our packages) that any tape with a
shiny surface cannot be used on a package going to an international
destination.  From what I have learned, packages are now stamped along
all corners - shiny tape causes smudges that look like the package may
have been tampered with.  Paper tape is OK.

>From what I have been able to determine, none of this info is in the
online International Mail Manual nor can I find any bulletins where I
can read about the change.

I'm looking into this further and I would also be interested in learning
if others have seen this same change.

Sincerely,

Rich Rabeler
University of Michigan Herbarium