Perishable Items
What is the carrier for Perishable Items?
For Perishable Items, carrier is USPS; restriction type is restricted; scope is domestic; conditions is must be specially packaged and mailed so that they arrive before they begin to deteriorate, recorded from its source on 2026-08-03.
Perishable items are materials that can deteriorate in the mail, such as live animals, food, and plants. Permissible perishable items are sent at the mailer’s own risk. These items must be specially packaged and mailed so that they arrive before they begin to deteriorate.
— usps.com, retrieved 2026-08-03
- Item category
- Perishable Items verified
- Carrier
- USPS our reading
- Restriction type
- restricted our reading
- Scope
- domestic our reading
- Conditions
- must be specially packaged and mailed so that they arrive before they begin to deteriorate verified
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.
Source
- usps.comhttps://www.usps.com/ship/shipping-restrictions.htm