| Title: | Notification Policy for Invalid Addresses / Undeliverable Mail |
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| Date: | 2009-01-30 |
| To: | abi,acep |
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Since July, 2005, the Revenue Division, Office of Finance has worked diligently to obtain corrected, valid addresses whenever the U.S. Postal Service returns mail to CBP as ‘undeliverable’. Currently, the Revenue Division policy in this area is as follows: Upon receipt of mail returned as ‘undeliverable’ by the U.S. Postal Service, the Revenue Division renders the continuous bond insufficient immediately. The Trade Community may have the continuous bond returned to sufficient status by complying with the instructions posted at:
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/priority_trade/revenue/bonds/pilot_program/insufficient_bonds.xml.
The sudden, unexpected insufficiency of the continuous bond can create a significant disruption to import activity. In response to numerous requests from the Trade Community, the Revenue Division will test a program beginning in February, 2009 whereby sureties receive advance notice of pending bond insufficiencies.
CSMS #09-000069