30 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Apr.-June 
Postmasters will please take note and be governed accordingly. See para- 
graph 1, section 595, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
TERMINAL INSPECTION OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, June 19, 1939. 
Terminal inspection is required of plants and plant products addressed to 
Arizona, Arkansas, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, 
Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Utah, and 
Washington. All parcels addressed to the States named must be plainly marked 
on the outside to show the exact nature of their contents. 
Section 596, Postal Laws and Regulations, prescribes three methods of 
handling such parcels, as follows : 
1. As provided in paragraphs 3, 4, 5, and 6 of section 596, the parcels shall, 
upon payment of postage therefor, be forwarded by the postmaster at the 
post office of their destination to the proper State official at the nearest place 
where plant inspection is maintained, where, after inspection and passing and 
the payment of return postage therefor, they shall be returned to the post 
office of address and delivered to the addressee. 
2. Or, as provided in paragraph 7, section 596, if the addressee so desires, 
he may have the parcels addressed to himself in care of a State plant inspec- 
tor arranging with the inspector to forward the parcels, after inspection and 
passing, to the addressee upon payment of the forwarding postage therefor 
which shall be furnished to the inspector by the addressee. 
3. Or, as also provided in paragraph 7, section 596, the addressee may have 
the sender place a pledge to pay the forwarding postage on the parcels, ad- 
dressed in care of a plant inspector, in which case they shall, after inspec- 
tion and passing, be forwarded rated with the forwarding postage, such postage 
to be collected from the addressee upon delivery of the parcels. 
In addition to the above-described methods of handling, arrangements have 
also been made whereby the shipper may at his own instance address the parcels 
to the addressee in care of a State plant inspector at an established terminal 
inspection point. When so addressed at the instance of the mailer he shall 
place on the parcels immediately below the return address his pledge guaran- 
teeing payment of forwarding postage, such postage to be collected upon de- 
livery to the addressee as provided by paragraph 4, section 769. Parcels so sent 
shall be labeled as follows : 
"Shipped for (or on a/c) 
W. H. Jones, 
Garfield, Utah. 
From : 
John Doe Nurseries, 
Shenandoah, Iowa. 
Forwarding Postage Guaranteed. To : 
Contents: W. H. Jones, 
! c/o State Plant Inspector, 
Salt Lake City, Utah." 
When forwarding parcels under the latter arrangement, the inspector shall 
first cross out "c/o State Plant Inspector," and the name of the post office 
at the point of inspection appearing in the original address, and insert the 
name of the post office to which the parcels are to be forwarded. After en- 
dorsing the parcels to show that the contents have been inspected and passed, 
the inspector will return them to the postmaster who will rate the same with 
the necessary forwarding postage and dispatch them to the office of ultimate 
address, the additional postage to be collected from the addressee upon delivery 
to him. 
It is essential in following this arrangement that the shippers have their 
parcels directed to the State inspector at an inspection point located 'to the 
best advantage with respect to the post office of final address, thus facilitating 
onward dispatch and delivery. 
