# intoxicating liquors — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For intoxicating liquors, carrier is USPS; restriction type is restricted; scope is all domestic mail; conditions is Beverages with alcohol content of 0.5 percent or more by weight are taxable per Chapter 51 of the IRS Code and subject to mailability rules, recorded from its source on 2026-08-04.

- **Item category:** intoxicating liquors _(unconfirmed — we could not tie this to the quote below)_
- **Carrier:** USPS _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Restriction type:** restricted _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Scope:** all domestic mail _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Conditions:** Beverages with alcohol content of 0.5 percent or more by weight are taxable per Chapter 51 of the IRS Code and subject to mailability rules _(unconfirmed — we could not tie this to the quote below)_

## What the source says

> beverages with an alcohol content of 0.5 percent or more by weight and are taxable per Chapter 51 of the United States (U.S.) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Code

## Source

- https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c4_005.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/).