Shipping perfume ground with DOT "Limited Quantity" label. USPS Hazardous Material code required?

[seely7]

The subject pretty much sums it up, but in case elaboration is necessary, based on what I've read online and in the forums during the past day or two, I shipped a small (1/2 oz) bottle of bath oil today via USPS Parcel Select.  My understanding from prior threads is that it must go via Ground, and that it should have the  "DOT Limited Quantity" marking on it.  I also wrote "Surface Only" on the box.

When I brought it to the post office, our postmistress asked "What's the code?" and said that it needed a Haz Mat code to indicate what was inside, and that it risked being returned to me if it wasn't there.  But in reading other threads in these forums and elsewhere online, I never saw anyone anywhere reference a code.

I wound up just writing "1/2 ounce perfume" on the side of the box next to the Limited Quantity diamond, and I'm hoping that's sufficient, but since I have a couple of similar items I'll be listing, I'd like to make sure that I'm getting it right and that the buyer gets their purchase without any USPS snags.

[orangehound]

You do not need to put a DOT label with the code on small quantities. 

You attach an ORM-D label with "Consumer Quantity" and "Surface Only" on it.  For more info, look at DMM 343.3:  [click]

[seely7]

ORM-D was phased out effective 12/31/2020 (which I mentioned during my discussion at the PO, and the Postmistress confirmed). 

The DOT Limited Quantity label is now the proper one to use; the question is whether or not it needs a code.  I thought that for Ground, it did not.  The Postmistress believes that it does, and might get held up.

More on the ORM-D phaseout here:

https://www.postaltimes.com/postalnews/usps-to-eliminate-orm-d-marking/

[orangehound]

Thanks for the link.   (I rarely ship hazardous stuff).

Odd that the DMM hasn't been changed ... perhaps they delayed the decision.

[seely7]

I don't think they delayed implementation, as that was the first thing that the Postmistress said (that ORM-D was no longer used), and that agreed with a July thread in these forums that I had found.  I'm in a small, rural town, and clearly they don't deal with this much, evidently.

According to the tracking, my package left the local PO last evening, but hasn't yet been scanned at the big distribution center in the southern part of the state.  Fingers crossed that this goes okay...