# Damaged, defective, or recalled lithium batteries — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For Damaged, defective, or recalled lithium batteries, carrier is USPS; restriction type is prohibited; scope is all mail; conditions is Prohibited unless approved by the director, Product Classification, recorded from its source on 2026-08-04.

- **Item category:** Damaged, defective, or recalled lithium batteries _(unconfirmed — we could not tie this to the quote below)_
- **Carrier:** USPS _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Restriction type:** prohibited _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Scope:** all mail _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Conditions:** Prohibited unless approved by the director, Product Classification _(unconfirmed — we could not tie this to the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Damaged, Defective, or Recalled Batteries: Damaged, defective, or recalled batteries unless approved by the director, Product Classification

## Source

- https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c3_028.htm

Last verified: 2026-08-04. Review by: 2027-08-04.
Part of [Postal shipping restrictions by item category](https://referencesource.org/shipping-restrictions-by-class/).