If you are in charge of mailing products to international clients or if you have a mailing list that you need to make available to your overseas clients, you must know how to make sure that the address you have provided them with is correct. If it isn't you might be passing up potentially profitable business and you aren't doing the very best thing for yourself either. It is important to make sure that you understand International Postage Rates from the US so that you can offer your clients and potential customers accurate and up to date information.
A lot of people who send letters internationally assume that they all use the same standards and for this reason, they assume that the US Postal Service's International Postage Rates is accurate. This is far from true. The USPS has been collecting data from all over the world for many years but it is still a fairly new service. In some cases, there is no way of knowing whether the addresses being given are correct and in other cases the process of collecting such data is too tedious for them to take on and they still don't have the resources to do so. Add to this the fact that the USPS has not been successful at getting any laws passed that will force the carriers to provide a more accurate service, and you can see why this isn't a system that you want to be using. It may seem like a daunting task to understand but it is actually quite easy once you get started.
What you need to do is to understand that there is no way for the USPS to collect data that doesn't already exist in the US. Instead, they have to rely on the information you provide and the data that they collect themselves. This makes it very hard to manually check and ensure that your addresses are correct and that you are offering the right products to your customers. You need to take this into consideration because you can do so much to improve the accuracy of your addresses before ever sending the packages out. You should also know that these processes are not only in place to prevent fraudulent activity but they are also in place to protect you, the customer.
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