On the postal delivery side of the equation, it is not a USDA policy change. There has been no change of policy within the US regulations. Some of the issues may be long-term memory with the postal service and the inspecting officials of Homeland Security. From a fiscal legal issue. you could not send a check to USDA and have an Officer cash it at a inspection station to add postage. to much unaccounted money exchange. Not a good option at all. We are trying to keep the exchange of money out of the daily duties of officers. temptation is a mean bee to contain. A few threads past I mentioned that a legal element in the government is trying to determine fault when a package by-passes the inspection station? The school of thought is to charge the importer with the misdeeds of the exporter. The "official" label reduces the accidental delivery to the final destination. By design - having the final destination label on the inside that can be affixed over the green and yellow seems like a best option. We are still dealing with getting the parcel back into the system for final delivery. But I have been assured that the policy is more in the court of the postal service. We are working on viable solutions that work for USDA to move commodities and the postal service to recognize that the material is just passing via the inspection station and that in most cases the box leaving the inspection station is the same or in some cases less than when it entered into the Inspection Station. I'm not too sure who all these people are who would be checking every parcel entering through the international mail system and if taxpayers would approve the amount of staff necessary to check every box and parcel. Or how we are to train everyone at the postal service to look for specific double addresses labels. Especially when most of the operations are automated by zip-code readers and barcodes. There are a lot less live bodies looking at the mail these days and much more automation from Xray scanning to detection of addresses. The green and yellow label directs the package to the Plant Inspection station- it is the address affixed to the box. There are not too many people watching boxes go by and removing the labelled ones from a conveyer belt. the delivery goes to the address on the box. Bill