Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 1.12.1995

Implementation of International Package Consignment Service

This amendment to International Package Consignment Service (IPCS) provides an additional entry option to IPCS mailers whose plants are more than 500 miles from the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Processing Facility at the JFK International Airport. In the original interim regulations, which took effect December 1, 1994 (59 FR 65961-65971), any mailer whose plant is more than 500 miles from the JFK Processing Facility must present IPCS packages for verification at the mailer's plant and then transport them as a drop shipment to the JFK Processing Facility according to a schedule agreed upon by the mailer and the Postal Service. At the JFK Processing Facility, the Postal Service processes the mailer's IPCS packages and dispatches them by air to Japan. Although that entry option remains available to all qualifying IPCS mailers, an alternative option has been developed that allows mailers to share some of the processing of the mail and to avoid transporting the packages to the JFK Processing Facility. Under this alternative option, those mailers whose plants are more than 500 miles from the JFK Processing Facility, and who choose to do so, may process their IPCS packages, using Postal Service-