The U.S. Post Office plans to ban the delivery of e-cigarette products

Recently, the U.S. Congress passed the "Preventing Online Sales of Electronic Cigarettes to Children", which prohibits the United States Post Office (USPS) from shipping e-cigarette products.
 

It is understood that the main domestic parcel delivery companies in the United States are UPS, Fedex, and USPS. Among them, UPS and Fedex are private companies, which are giants in aviation logistics and land transport logistics. USPS is the United States Post Office, and its delivery network far exceeds that of any company. The three companies currently occupy approximately 75% of the parcel delivery market.

Due to the risks involved in the transportation of e-cigarette products, the United States Post Office USPS will prohibit the transportation of any form of e-cigarette products (including import and export) on the domestic logistics network of the United States from April 5, 2021. Transit transportation from the United States will not be affected (for example, packages shipped from China to Canada pass through the United States), and applications and projects that do not use the United States as the origin and destination will be allowed.

FedEx announced that from May 1, 2021, e-cigarette products will be included in the list of prohibited transportation. DHL also included e-cigarette products in the list of non-accepted shipping.

Due to changes in the prohibited items policies of the U.S. Postal Service and FedEx, UPS’s professional sales staff may receive requests from e-cigarette product sellers to start using UPS for delivery. Based on the upcoming policy changes, UPS stated that it should not provide services to these sellers, even on a temporary basis.
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