[pct-l] Stoves

Frank Dumville fdumville at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 17 21:00:11 CST 2012


The 4 oz limit on isobutane canisters that keeps coming up is wrong. 

The following excerpt from the USPS publication 52, Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Mail specifies the limit for the typical metal isobutane canisters is 1 liter. Read the whole paragraph.

342 Gases (Hazard Class 2)
  342.3 Packaging
    c. Flammable Gases. A mailable flammable compressed gas is restricted to 4 fluid ounces in a nonmetal primary receptacle or 33.8 fluid ounces (1 liter) in a metal primary receptacle per mailpiece Packaging Instruction 2A must be followed. 

If anyone knows of a source that overrides this please reference it.

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