Post Offices to Display Recall Lists

America’s post offices will soon have a new poster to accompany the FBI’s most-wanted list of dangerous criminals. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Tuesday it would put up posters of safety recalls to alert the public to the most dangerous products.

About 33,000 post offices, where 7 million people go each day to mail letters and ship packages, will get the new posters. The first should be up this week, officials said.

Commission Chairwoman Ann Brown said the posters, with color pictures of the recalled products, will allow people to recognize hazardous products that might be around the house.

“We can get dangerous products off store shelves, but the real challenge is to get them out of families’ homes,” she said.

The program was launched as the commission announced its annual recall roundup, a list of products that were recalled throughout the previous year. Among those making the list and the posters include:

* Pokemon balls from Burger King “kids’ meals” that can suffocate children younger than 3.

* Infant car seats and carriers made by Cosco that have handle locks that can unexpectedly release, allowing the baby to fall.

* Plastic swimming pool “dive sticks” sold under several brand names.

* Portable cribs of the “Playskool Travel-Lite” model type that can collapse and entrap a child.

* Cedar chests made by The Lane Co. that have been blamed for seven deaths of children who have become trapped and suffocated.