[pct-l] Mailing -- from the USPS website

[brick@fastpack.com (Brick Robbins)]

At 12:27 PM 5/21/02, you wrote:
>Do you know anything about mailing the Esbit fuel tabs?  I was thinking of using those, but I don't have any right now, so I don't know what's in them.

http://www.fallingwater.com/pct2000/gear/fuelcomp.asp says Esbit tabs are "Methenamine"

http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/m2067.htm says that Hexamethylenetetramine (the stuff listed as the ingredient in lots of other fuel tabs) is another name for the same thing. 

Other names 
1,3,5,7-Tetraazatricyclo[3.3.1.1(3,7)]decane; Hexamethylenetetramine; Formamine; Urotropin; HMTA; Hexaform 

It has a flash point Flash point: 250C (482F)
J.T. Baker SAF-T-DATA(tm) Flammability Rating 1 - Slight 

 From reading the regs, it looks like it is OK to mail them.


>Also, could you provide the URL to the USPS Web site where you are finding this information?

It was in the message I posted that you are responding to. Here it is again
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub52_print.htm

The PDF version is a little easier to use, and has the appendices.
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub52.pdf

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