# Medicines & Prescription Drugs — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For Medicines & Prescription Drugs, carrier is USPS; restriction type is restricted; scope is domestic; conditions is Prescription medications may only be mailed by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registered distributors, recorded from its source on 2026-08-03.

- **Item category:** Medicines & Prescription Drugs _(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:** domestic _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Conditions:** Prescription medications may only be mailed by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registered distributors.

## What the source says

> Prescription medications may only be mailed by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registered distributors.

## Source

- https://www.usps.com/ship/shipping-restrictions.htm

Last verified: 2026-08-03. Review by: 2027-08-03.
Part of [Postal shipping restrictions by item category](https://referencesource.org/shipping-restrictions-by-class/).