# drug paraphernalia — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For drug paraphernalia, carrier is USPS; restriction type is prohibited; scope is all mail; conditions is Mailing drug paraphernalia is illegal under the Controlled Substances Act; any article deemed unlawful under the Controlled Substances Act is prohibited from mailing, recorded from its source on 2026-08-04.

- **Item category:** drug paraphernalia
- **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:** Mailing drug paraphernalia is illegal under the Controlled Substances Act; any article deemed unlawful under the Controlled Substances Act is prohibited from mailing

## What the source says

> Mailing drug paraphernalia is illegal under the Controlled Substances Act. Any article deemed unlawful under the Controlled Substances Act is prohibited from mailing

## Source

- https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c4_020.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/).