USPS Intl. Mail Service Suspensions - April 20

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USPS Intl. Mail Service Suspensions - April 20

USPS Intl. Mail Service Suspensions - April 20

International Mail Service Suspensions

The Postal Service™ is temporarily suspending international mail acceptance for certain destinations due to service impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Suspension Due to Foreign Postal Operator Service Suspension

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Bolivia	French Polynesia	Maldives	Rwanda
Botswana	Honduras	Mauritius	Samoa
Cayman Islands	India	Mongolia	South Africa
Chad	Kuwait	Nepal	Sri Lanka
Curacao	Libya	New Caledonia	Zimbabwe
Ecuador	Madagascar	Panama
Fiji	Malawi	Peru

Suspension Due to Unavailability of Transportation

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Angola	Guatemala	Papua New Guinea	Timor-Leste
Benin	Guinea Bissau	Paraguay	Tonga
Bermuda	Guyana	Republic of the Congo	UAE
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Kenya	Saudi Arabia	Uganda
Burundi	Kiribati	Senegal	Uruguay
Cameroon	Kyrgyzstan	Seychelles	Vanuatu
Cape Verde	Laos	Solomon Islands	Venezuela
Cook Islands	Lebanon	South Sudan	Yemen
Costa Rica	Lesotho	Sudan	Zambia
Cuba	Moldova	Swaziland (Eswatini)
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Mozambique	Tajikistan
Gambia	Oman	Tanzania

Customers: please refrain from mailing items addressed to the countries listed here, until further notice.
These service disruptions affect Priority Mail Express International® (PMEI), Priority Mail International® (PMI), First-Class Mail International® (FCMI), First-Class Package International Service® (FCPIS®), International Priority Airmail® (IPA®), International Surface Air Lift® (ISAL®), and M-Bag® items.
Unless otherwise noted, service suspensions to a particular country do not affect delivery of military and diplomatic mail.

For already deposited items, other than GXG:	Postal Service employees endorse them “Mail Service Suspended — Return to Sender” and then place them in the mail stream for return.
For any returned item bearing a customs form:	The Postal Service will, upon request, refund postage and fees on mail returned due to the suspension of service.
For all other returned items not bearing a customs declarations form:	Either: The Postal Service will, upon request, refund postage and fees on mail returned due to the suspension of service, or The sender may remail them with the existing postage once service has been restored. When remailing under this option, customers must cross out the markings “Mail Service Suspended — Return to Sender.”

For already deposited items, other than GXG:

Postal Service employees endorse them “Mail Service Suspended — Return to Sender” and then place them in the mail stream for return.

For any returned item bearing a customs form:

The Postal Service will, upon request, refund postage and fees on mail returned due to the suspension of service.

For all other returned items not bearing a customs declarations form:

Either:

The Postal Service will, upon request, refund postage and fees on mail returned due to the suspension of service, or
The sender may remail them with the existing postage once service has been restored. When remailing under this option, customers must cross out the markings “Mail Service Suspended — Return to Sender.”

Global Express Guaranteed® Service Suspensions and Disruptions

Effective April 14, 2020, the Postal Service is temporarily suspending international mail acceptance of Global Express Guarantee® (GXG®) to the following destinations:

Suspension of Global Express Guaranteed Service

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Bangladesh	Fiji	Lesotho	Rwanda
Bhutan	French Polynesia	Liberia	Samoa
Burundi	Gambia	Libya	Seychelles
Cape Verde	Guinea	Mongolia	Timor-Leste
Chad	Guinea-Bissau	Nepal	Tonga
Democratic Republic of the Congo	India	Norfolk Island	Uganda
Equatorial Guinea	Kirbati	Philippines	Vanuatu
Eritrea	Laos	Republic of the Congo	Wallis and Futuna