Alcoholic Beverages · USPS
What is the restriction type for Alcoholic Beverages · USPS?
For Alcoholic Beverages, carrier is USPS; restriction type is prohibited; scope is disputed: domestic per usps.com, domestic mail (air and surface) per pe.usps.com; conditions is disputed: Beer, wine, and liquor may not be sent through the mail, except in limited circumstances per usps.com, Hazard class 3, UN3065, packing group II, III; domestic mail air: Prohibited; domestic mail surface: Prohibited per pe.usps.com, recorded from its source on 2026-08-03.
Beer, wine, and liquor may not be sent through the mail, except in limited circumstances.
— usps.com, retrieved 2026-08-03
- Item or substance
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Carrier
- USPS our reading
- Restriction type
- prohibited our reading
- Scope
- domestic our reading sources disagree
- Conditions
- Beer, wine, and liquor may not be sent through the mail, except in limited circumstances. sources disagree
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Sources disagree
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Scope
usps.com says scope is domestic, as of 2026-08-03.
Beer, wine, and liquor may not be sent through the mail, except in limited circumstances.
https://www.usps.com/ship/shipping-restrictions.htm
pe.usps.com says scope is domestic mail (air and surface), as of 2026-08-10.
Alcoholic beverages 3 UN3065 II, III Prohibited Prohibited
https://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub52/pub52.pdf
Conditions
usps.com says conditions is Beer, wine, and liquor may not be sent through the mail, except in limited circumstances., as of 2026-08-03.
Beer, wine, and liquor may not be sent through the mail, except in limited circumstances.
https://www.usps.com/ship/shipping-restrictions.htm
pe.usps.com says conditions is Hazard class 3, UN3065, packing group II, III; domestic mail air: Prohibited; domestic mail surface: Prohibited, as of 2026-08-10.
Alcoholic beverages 3 UN3065 II, III Prohibited Prohibited
Sources
- usps.comhttps://www.usps.com/ship/shipping-restrictions.htm
- pe.usps.comhttps://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub52/pub52.pdf