Safety matches (book, card, or strike-on-box)
For Safety matches (book, card, or strike-on-box), carrier is USPS; restriction type is restricted; scope is domestic mail via surface transportation only; conditions is Permitted only in domestic mail via surface transportation; must follow Packaging Instruction 4B; mailpieces marked 'Surface Only' or 'Surface Mail Only', recorded from its source on 2026-08-04.
- Item category
- Safety matches (book, card, or strike-on-box) unconfirmed
- Carrier
- USPS our reading
- Restriction type
- restricted our reading
- Scope
- domestic mail via surface transportation only our reading
- Conditions
- Permitted only in domestic mail via surface transportation; must follow Packaging Instruction 4B; mailpieces marked 'Surface Only' or 'Surface Mail Only' unconfirmed
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What the source says
Safety matches: Book, card, or strike-on-box safety matches are permitted only in domestic mail via surface transportation.
— pe.usps.com, retrieved 2026-08-04
Source
- pe.usps.comhttps://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c3_023.htm