# covered products - seizure and forfeiture — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For covered products - seizure and forfeiture, carrier is USPS; restriction type is prohibited; scope is all mail; conditions is Nonmailable covered products deposited in the mail are subject to seizure and forfeiture; will be destroyed or retained by the federal government for crime detection, prosecution, or related investigations, recorded from its source on 2026-08-04.

- **Item category:** covered products - seizure and forfeiture _(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:** Nonmailable covered products deposited in the mail are subject to seizure and forfeiture; will be destroyed or retained by the federal government for crime detection, prosecution, or related investigations _(unconfirmed — we could not tie this to the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Nonmailable covered products deposited in the mail are subject to seizure and forfeiture.

## 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/).