What do you guys say when mailing liquids at the post office?
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I honestly don't know what people do. I wouldn't even try it at my local post office. They are like the post office nazis there. One time they gave me the third degree for five minutes because I wanted to send a book "media mail" and then made sure they saw me as they stamped it SUBJECT TO INSPECTION when I insisted it was nothing but a book inside. They will quiz you for sure about whether or not there are liquid in it and then they will manually feel the package up to see if you're lying. But that's just my post office. I've been to another post office in the suburbs with thirty media mail packages and they just processed them all with a big smile and no questions asked.
At my post office they may only ask if it is on that list of dangerous items ( flammable, explosive, corrosive, etc)
Ejuices are not listed so you can say no to any of those prohibited items without lying. I've noticed there is no label on the juices that are sent to my by any of the places I order juice from, so this should not be an issue.
Ejuices are not listed so you can say no to any of those prohibited items without lying. I've noticed there is no label on the juices that are sent to my by any of the places I order juice from, so this should not be an issue.
If they even ask, food/candy flavoring or something like that. I wouldn't ever say e-juice, because depending on how they interpret the regulations they might refuse to ship it.
I use UPS. 
Seriously. The lines at the DMV are faster. The last time I went to an actual U.S. Postal drop off stamps were 19 cents I think.
Seriously. The lines at the DMV are faster. The last time I went to an actual U.S. Postal drop off stamps were 19 cents I think.Never worked for me! 8-o
I asked my post office about this a couple weeks ago. She asked if I was sending liquids, which I wasn't but asked her, What if I was? She said that you can. They should be sealed in baggies and they'd like something in the box to soak up any spilled liquid like paper towels packed in and around the baggies, should there be any leaks. They are concerned about the leakage ruining other packages. Just make sure they are in sealed baggies and you should be fine.
Yeah breakable perfume sounds good. The important thing is to package it in a box with a lot of bubble wrap and make sure it has some weight to it. Small packages sometimes have to travel 20 or more feet through the air and land in a bag attached to a rack with an opening the size of a basketball hoop.
Liquids in general are OK, but it gets a bit fuzzy with e-juice. "Smokeless tobacco products" are prohibited by regulations, so if the person there interprets that as applying to juice they won't ship it. All depends on who you're dealing with, but it's safer to call it something else.
What I looked at.. Pub 52 is the hazardous materials sections.
412 Mailer Responsibility
Eliquid I wouldn't consider smokeless tobacco. It has nothing to do with tobacco except nicotine. Heck you can call it liquified chap stick.
412 Mailer Responsibility
Eliquid I wouldn't consider smokeless tobacco. It has nothing to do with tobacco except nicotine. Heck you can call it liquified chap stick.
Just as Cliven says.
We ask if it is "fragile, liquid, perishable, or potentially hazardous; Such as lithium batteries, or perfume" for a reason.
If you say that you're mailing beer or wine, clearly the clerk cannot allow you to enter that into the mail stream. It is prohibited and flammable.
However, if your mailing something such as an E liquid, it is legal, so the only course of action is to ensure that there is sufficient material inside of the box to absorb any excess liquid. Putting them inside of zip lock baggies would suffice, as well.
Remember everyone is legally culpable for that which they mail. Also there are other mailpieces to consider, and employee safety concerns. So should you mail a wine bottle and have it break open in transit when it comes in contact with a heavier box, other mail pieces are drenched, and ultimately destroyed. We see this all the time.
If your box happens to contain illegal material which is discovered, then you deal with the Postal Inspectors.
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got it! all future mail questions must be promptly forwarded to your "in box". roger that.
while i'm at it, what are the current regulations and/or procedures pertaining to lithium batteries?
lol well I showed them the bottles first, they were the squeezable plastic bottles and made sure I could ship them first, they said yes and a bubble wrapper mailer was enough they just needed to stamp it that it had liquid inside....she asked what it was so I said perfume (it was nic free so at that point it was pretty much perfume
)next time I'll prob say food flavoring....will have to remember to bring some cotton balls though...hadn't thought about possible leaking out on other items...
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