# Safety matches (book, card, or strike-on-box) — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For Safety matches (book, card, or strike-on-box), carrier is USPS; restriction type is restricted; scope is domestic mail via surface transportation only; conditions is Permitted only in domestic mail via surface transportation; must follow Packaging Instruction 4B; mailpieces marked 'Surface Only' or 'Surface Mail Only', recorded from its source on 2026-08-04.

- **Item category:** Safety matches (book, card, or strike-on-box) _(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 mail via surface transportation only _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Conditions:** Permitted only in domestic mail via surface transportation; must follow Packaging Instruction 4B; mailpieces marked 'Surface Only' or 'Surface Mail Only' _(unconfirmed — we could not tie this to the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Safety matches: Book, card, or strike-on-box safety matches are permitted only in domestic mail via surface transportation.

## Source

- https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c3_023.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/).