# covered products (cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, ENDS) - general prohibition — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For covered products (cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, ENDS) - general prohibition, carrier is USPS; restriction type is prohibited; scope is all mail - general public; conditions is 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, recorded from its source on 2026-08-04.

- **Item category:** covered products (cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, ENDS) - general prohibition
- **Carrier:** USPS _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Restriction type:** prohibited _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Scope:** all mail - general public _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **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 _(unconfirmed — we could not tie this to the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 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

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/).