New Mailing Standards for Live Animals

What it does

The Postal Service proposes revising Publication 52, Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Mail (Pub 52), for various package requirements for live animals. This proposal will improve package integrity and container identification for all live animal shipments during processing and handling by prohibiting the reuse of fiberboard containers and requiring individual addressing and sequential numbering for multiple container shipments when bound together in a single shipment. Also, this proposal requires mailers to write the recipient's name and address directly on the packaging of Adult Bird shipments in the event the shipping label becomes detached from the packaging.

The Postal Service's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

2 parts of Title 39 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

39 CFR 111, 39 CFR 211

What happens next and when

Comments must be received on or before September 8, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 39 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register