{"id":12483,"date":"2015-09-24T18:52:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T23:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12483"},"modified":"2015-09-24T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T23:52:35","slug":"registered-mail-change-to-take-effect-oct-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/09\/24\/registered-mail-change-to-take-effect-oct-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Registered Mail change to take effect Oct. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title-full\">Matters of import<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"link-subhead-full\">Registered Mail change to take effect Oct. 1<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"entry-date\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2015-09-24T10:04:38+00:00\">USPS News Link 9.24.15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content full\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><a title=\"USPS won\u2019t offer tracking and scanning if an international post hasn\u2019t upgraded its capability to offer products with \u201cvisibility.\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/registered_mail_change_largestory.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/registered_mail_change_largestory.jpg\" alt=\"Registered mail change\" width=\"357\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-caption\">USPS won\u2019t offer tracking and scanning if an international post hasn\u2019t upgraded its capability to offer products with \u201cvisibility.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Postal Service will no longer offer scanning and tracking services for some international Registered Mail destined for the United States.<\/p>\n<p>If an international post hasn\u2019t upgraded its capability to offer a product with \u201cvisibility,\u201d USPS will not offer tracking and scanning. This change takes effect Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The change is being made to improve the profitability of import Registered Mail items and to encourage international posts to shift their items from the import Registered Mail stream to the import ePacket product.<\/p>\n<p>The ePacket product is an import small packet package shipment that provides delivery scanning at higher postage rates than Registered Mail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faq.usps.com\/?articleId=1437076354655\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Several international posts<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>already have upgraded to offer their customers a product that includes scanning and tracking service features.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matters of import Registered Mail change to take effect Oct. 1 USPS News Link 9.24.15 USPS won\u2019t offer tracking and scanning if an international post hasn\u2019t upgraded its capability to offer products with \u201cvisibility.\u201d The Postal Service will no longer offer scanning and tracking services for some international Registered Mail destined for the United States. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12485,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions\/12485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}