Daily Survival Guide

How to Identify a Mail Bomb
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1. If a carrier delivers an unexpected bulky letter or parcel, inspect it for lumps, bulges, or protrusions, without applying pressure.
   Watch out for leaks, stains (especially oily stains), protruding wires, or excessive tape.


2. Handwritten labels on packages that supposedly come from companies are suspicious.
   Watch out for articles with no return address or a nonsensical return address.


3. Watch out for excess postage on small packages or letters--this indicates that the object was not weighed by the post office.
   It is no longer legal to mail stamped parcels weighing more than 13 ounces at mailboxes in the United States--they must be take to a post office.


4. If you receive a package and have good reason to think that it might be a bomb, call 911.