[pct-l] fuel shipment via priority mail was rejected by USPS

[Greg Mikol]

Priority Mail is fundamentally not a surface mail service. They will not 
sort out Priority packages to ensure they travel surface, even if it's a 
short distance, and will almost certainly travel surface, e.g. if you 
were mailing from Seattle to Snoqualmie Pass. In order to avoid any 
uncertainty or ambiguity, the Postal Service's policy is that ORM-D must 
travel parcel (or perhaps(?) first-class for light parcels, i.e. all 
you're shipping is 1 fuel canister.)

The clerk was absolutely correct. Be glad the employees at your PO 
actually knew the rules. My brother-in-law got treated like a criminal 
when he tried to mail boxes for me several years ago that contained 
canister fuel, correctly labeled, correct service, etc.

Good luck--

Greg


> I was under the impression that I could ship 8oz of fuel via USPS
> Priority Mail in a box appropriately labeled, including an ORM-D
> sticker, and saying "surface mail" to the clerk (the box was not
> labeled surface mail/consumer commodity: my mistake).
>
> The postal clerk just now rejected the box because "all priority mail
> goes by air: you have to repackage this in a box which is not a
> priority mail box and send it via normal ground mail".  So I trudged
> home and am now sending this email to see what the experts here know
> -:)
>
> Robert Henry
> Seattle
>