---
type: restriction
id: usps-covered-products-cigarettes-smokeless-tobacco-ends-general-prohibition
asset: shipping-restrictions-by-class
title: "covered products (cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, ENDS) - general prohibition — Postal shipping restrictions by item category"
sources:
  - https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c4_027.htm
source_quote: "The Postal Service will not accept, forward, or deliver packages it knows, or reasonably believes, to contain nonmailable covered products."
generated: true
harvested: 2026-08-04
stale_after: 2027-08-04
item_category: "covered products (cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, ENDS) - general prohibition"
carrier: "USPS"
restriction_type: "prohibited"
scope: "all mail - general public"
conditions: "The Postal Service will not accept, forward, or deliver packages it knows or reasonably believes to contain nonmailable covered products; seized and forfeited nonmailable covered products will be destroyed"
verified: true
unverified_fields: conditions, scope
---
**Item category:** covered products (cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, ENDS) - general prohibition

**Carrier:** USPS

**Restriction type:** prohibited

**Scope:** all mail - general public

**Conditions:** The Postal Service will not accept, forward, or deliver packages it knows or reasonably believes to contain nonmailable covered products; seized and forfeited nonmailable covered products will be destroyed

> The Postal Service will not accept, forward, or deliver packages it knows, or reasonably believes, to contain nonmailable covered products.

Source: <https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c4_027.htm>
