RE: USPS policy?

["Koran, David HQ02" <David_Koran at HQ02.USACE.ARMY.MIL>]

Barry,

Read the regulation (publication 52).  It implies the need to deliver the
fish alive but that the route is surface.  (sort of a dicotomy)  It also
specifies that the package be secure and you need to prevent leakage.  This
is not specific because the citation is goldfish.  However, publication 14
talks about restrictions (basically violating wildlife laws).

References:  PDF and Text

http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub52.pdf
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub52.htm
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub14.pdf
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub14/pub14.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Cooper [mailto:bjc3 at cornell_edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 3:07 PM
To: killietalk at AKA_Org
Subject: Re: USPS policy?


Edd,

I have been asked this question routinely for many months now. I know my 
local USPS people pretty well so I asked about it. I was told that if it 
was perishable they are supposed to give it special priority. That would 
suggest that it's a good thing. I am not sure about the liquids aspect. 
Presumably they could ask you what the liquid is and what precautions had 
been taken to prevent leakage. My strong impression is that these questions 
are not a way to refuse shipment.

Barry

At 12:40 PM 8/19/2003 -0600, you 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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