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• Package: only the Bound Printed Matter, Parcel Post and Standard Mail-Flats and Standard Mail-Parcels classes of mail as defined by U.S. Postal Services (USPS). For official USPS definitions for these mail classes, please visit www.usps.com.
• Packing Group: a designation that corresponds to the degree of danger presented by a hazardous material. Packing Group I indicates GREAT DANGER. Packing Group II indicates MEDIUM DANGER. Packing Group III indicates MINOR DANGER.
• Packing List: a detailed inventory of items contained in a shipment.
• Pallet: a small wooden, paper or metal platform usually with top and bottom, on which packaged goods are placed to facilitate movement by some type of shipment handling equipment.
• Parcel Control Document: the document shipper must complete and transmit to consolidator so that the consolidator can route the packages to the applicable U.S. Postal Service center for final delivery.
• P & D: pickup and delivery of shipments.
• Peddle Run: pickup or delivery route traveled by a city truck.
• Perishable shipment: shipment subject to decay or deterioration.
• Permits: authority or permit granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission to contract carriers by motor vehicle to operate in interstate commerce.
• Pickup: service of a carrier in calling for and collecting shipments to be transported over its line.
• Pickup or Delivery Allowance: a discount offered by Yellow to the consignee for pickup or shipper for delivery of a shipment to its terminal.
• Piggyback: transportation of a highway trailer on a railroad flat car.
• Placard: a diamond shaped sign of specified dimensions placed on both sides of trailer, and from and rear that communicates the hazard of a shipment inside the trailer.
• Point of entry: a port at which foreign goods are admitted into the receiving country. Ports of entry are officially designated by the government.
• Point of Origin: the terminal which picks up a shipment from a shipper.
• Premises: The entire property or facilities of the consignor, consignee, or other designated party.
• Prepaid: a term denoting that transportation charges have been paid or are to be paid at the point of shipment.
• Prior to Tender of Delivery: before shipment has been loaded on delivery vehicle (in cases where shipment is transferred to city delivery vehicle for delivery) or before shipment has been dispatched for delivery (in cases where shipment is not transferred to city vehicle for delivery).
• Private Carrier: a transportation line not engaged in business as a general public employment.
• Private Residence: apartments, churches, schools, camps and other such locations not generally recognized as commercial locations and shall apply to the entire premises, except any portion of the premises where commercial or business activity is conducted that involves the sales of services, products or merchandise to the walk-in public during normal business hours.
• PRO: a number issued to each shipment by the carrier and used for computer tracking of the shipment to its destination.
• Prohibited Articles: articles which will not be handled.
• Proof of Delivery: (also called P.O.D.) the delivery receipt copy of freight bill by receiver at time of delivery.
• Proper Shipping Name: the name of a hazardous material designated by the DOT for highway transportation in 49 CFR 172.101. For example, the proper shipping name for the refrigerant R-12 is “dichlorodifluoromethane”.
• Proportional Rate: a rate specifically published to be used only as a factor in making a combination through rate.
• Pup: a trailer usually connected in tandem to another trailer for over-the-road travel. A set of two pups connected together is often called “double bottoms”.