live scorpions
For live scorpions, carrier is USPS; restriction type is restricted; scope is continental United States only - surface transportation only; conditions is Scorpions are mailable only when sent for the purposes of medical research or the manufacturing of antivenin; must be sent by surface transportation within continental United States; must be properly packaged in double container system, recorded from its source on 2026-08-04.
- Item category
- live scorpions unconfirmed
- Carrier
- USPS our reading
- Restriction type
- restricted our reading
- Scope
- continental United States only - surface transportation only our reading
- Conditions
- Scorpions are mailable only when sent for the purposes of medical research or the manufacturing of antivenin; must be sent by surface transportation within continental United States; must be properly packaged in double container system unconfirmed
Values marked unconfirmed are shown, but we could not tie them to the quote below: Conditions, Item category. Read the quote and judge them yourself.
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
scorpions are mailable only when sent for the purposes of medical research or the manufacturing of antivenin. Scorpions are nonmailable under any other circumstances.
— pe.usps.com, retrieved 2026-08-04
Source
- pe.usps.comhttps://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_009.htm