USPS® created the Caution Heavy and Special Handling — Fragile labels to ensure that mailpieces bearing either label are separated from the mailstream and given special handling during dispatch, processing, and transportation.
Label 035CH, Caution Heavy, is a visual alert for packages that weigh 35 lbs. and over. This universal label captures the employee’s and customer’s attention before lifting to help make a safer work environment.
Sales and Services Associates (SSAs) at the Retail counter will affix Label 035CH to qualifying packages.
Label 875, Special Handling — Fragile, is a domestic extra service offered to our customers for a fee to enhance their shipping options. This service provides preferential handling for packages with the fragile designation, to the extent practicable in dispatch and processing, but does not insure the item against loss or damage.
SSAs who accept Priority Mail Express® mailpieces labeled Special Handling — Fragile at the Retail counter will identify Label 875 or the markings “Special Handling — Fragile” or “S.H.—Fragile,” and place the mailpiece into Mail Transport Equipment with a placard that identifies the contents as “Special Handling — Fragile.”
Business mailers can order the Caution Heavy label on The Postal Store® website at store.usps.com/store/.
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Product Innovation, 8-3-17
