Re: USPS policy?

[Ralph <eclod2002 at yahoo_com>]

Hi Edd,
 
My post office tried to not accept my live fish once, and even called their main headquarters and they said no, because of the liquids (not because of the fish).
 
I went home and checked online and printed out their latest set of regulations and brought it back and showed them.  There is a section in the latest regulations concerning shipping goldfish.  They have to be doublebagged, inside a styro box inside another box.  You can go to their site at usps.com and do a search for "live fish".
 
Ralph

"Kray, Edd" <Edd_Kray at rf.doe.gov> wrote:

Yesterday I took a couple pair of fish to the PO to send to Dick Martino
with the shipment to the KFN show. (Which by the way, I encourage you
all to participate-in, although he needs the fish this week, even
tomorrow as I remember).

I sent them priority mail as we normally do. The lady behind the desk
asked me: "Is there anything live, perishable, liquid or hazardous in
the box?" The question seemed to imply that if my answer was yes, they
wouldn't ship it. I won't tell you what my answer to her was. The fish
are on their way to Dick.

Is there some new postal policy that disallows packages that are live,
perishable or liquid? I asked my delivery person about this and she said
unequivocally "NO": "I've been delivering fish to you for 15 years and
there's nothing that forbids me to continue".

Your experiences? Seems you all are shipping priority mail with no
problems. Is my post office manager being arbitrary and capricious?
Would he have had to take them if I said there were fish in the box?

As a government (state) worker myself, I don't trust government workers!



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