{"id":247979,"date":"2023-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stamps.com\/?p=247979"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:18:09","slug":"usps-service-suspension-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stamps.com\/article\/usps-service-suspension-to-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Service Suspension to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stamps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sdc-blog_australia-fcpis-suspension.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stamps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sdc-blog_australia-fcpis-suspension.jpg\" alt=\"USPS Suspends delivery to australia for certain mail classes\" class=\"wp-image-7933\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>9\/15\/2021 Update: <\/strong>The USPS has temporarily suspended Priority Mail International shipments to Australia as of September 17, 2021. To avoid disruption, use GlobalPost Standard or Priority Mail Express International to ship your packages to Australia. Get more info on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goglobalpost.com\/international\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GlobalPost Standard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Postal Service has <em>TEMPORARILY<\/em> suspended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stamps.com\/usps\/first-class-international\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">First Class Package International Service<\/a> (as of September 3, 2021) and Priority Mail International (as of September 17, 2021) delivery to Australia due to carrier issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp; Priority Mail Express International delivery is not being impacted and mailpieces will continue to be delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your First Class Package International Service parcel is already in transit, the international carriers will endorse the items as \u201cMail Service Suspended \u2014 Return to Sender\u201d and then place the package in the mail stream for return. The USPS will provide a full refund of the shipping costs paid when service to the country of destination is suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alternate Delivery Options to Australia<\/strong><br>If you have a shipment you need to send to Australia during this suspension period, we recommend the following options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stamps.com\/ups\/\">UPS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stamps.com\/shipping\/international\/\">International Shipping<\/a><\/a><\/strong> &#8211; get discounted rates up to 76% off with no peak surcharge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stamps.com\/usps\/express-mail-international\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USPS Priority Mail Express International<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; get discounted rates up to 7% off Post Office rates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goglobalpost.com\/international\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GlobalPost International Standard<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Get door-to-door tracking capabilities to over 200 countries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is GlobalPost International Standard?<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goglobalpost.com\/international\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GlobalPost International Standard<\/a> uses a network of postal carriers which provides a similar service to First Class Package International Service at a lower rate.&nbsp; If you don\u2019t see GlobalPost International Standard as an option in your Stamps.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stamps.com\/shipping\/\">shipping software<\/a>, contact Customer Care at 1-888-434-0055 (open Monday to Friday, 6 am to 6 pm PT) to request access to GlobalPost carrier services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\/15\/2021 Update: The USPS has temporarily suspended Priority Mail International shipments to Australia as of September 17, 2021. To avoid disruption, use GlobalPost Standard or Priority Mail Express International to ship your packages to Australia. Get more info on GlobalPost Standard The U.S. Postal Service has TEMPORARILY suspended First Class Package International Service (as of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":247981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[109,108],"class_list":["post-247979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulatory-updates","tag-shipping-news","tag-usps"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.1 (Yoast SEO v25.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>USPS Service Suspension to Australia - Stamps.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"USPS Service Suspension to Australia 9\/15\/2021 Update: The USPS has temporarily suspended Priority Mail International shipments to Australia as of September 17, 2021. 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