No. Congress folded vaping products into the PACT Act framework, and the postal rule that followed makes e-cigarettes, pods, parts and e-liquids nonmailable for ordinary senders, nicotine or not. FedEx will not take them either, licensed or otherwise. This page covers vapes, cigarettes and tobacco in one place because the answer barely changes between them.
People hunt this topic for a loophole. We looked at the sources so you don't have to: there isn't one for individuals.
Both statements below come from the carriers themselves, read on 2026-07-27. SMKlog blocks the whole category at checkout independently of either.
| Product | USPS position | FedEx position | SMKlog checkout |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vapes, e-cigarettes, pods, e-liquid | Nonmailable as ENDS; per news.usps.com, "ENDS are regulated regardless of whether they contain nicotine or are used with nicotine." | Refused; its tobacco guidance says "We prohibit the shipping of tobacco and tobacco products" and names vaporizers and e-cigarettes in the list. | Declined |
| Cigarettes and smokeless tobacco | Nonmailable outside narrow authorizations such as intra-Alaska and intra-Hawaii shipments. | Refused even from licensed senders. | Declined |
| Standard cigars | Still mailable under postal rules. | On the same prohibited tobacco list. | Declined; our restrictions cover all tobacco |
| Empty accessories: cases, stands, humidors | Ordinary parcels. | Ordinary parcels. | Quotes normally |
The postal ENDS rule reaches devices that vaporize anything at all, so flavor-only liquid, hemp products and empty refillable pods sit inside the ban when they are made for a vaping device.
The PACT Act long governed mailing cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. In late 2020 Congress extended it to electronic nicotine delivery systems, and the Postal Service finalized its ENDS rule the following fall. That closed the residential mail lane that vape sellers had relied on, and the private-courier bans removed the alternatives.
Selling someone a label their carrier will seize is not a favor. Our restricted-items policy declines tobacco and vaping products up front, before payment, so the failure costs you thirty seconds instead of a confiscated box and a nonrefundable label.
A vape pen does contain a lithium cell, and lithium rules would apply if the device were mailable. It is not, so the ENDS prohibition settles the question before battery paperwork ever comes up.
No. Electronic nicotine delivery systems are nonmailable for private senders, and USPS applies the rule to devices, parts, pods and liquids alike, with or without nicotine inside.
Only a narrow set of authorized shippers qualifies for the postal exceptions, and the process sits far outside consumer checkout tools. FedEx refuses tobacco and vape freight even from licensed senders, and SMKlog offers no path for these items at all.
It does not. The ENDS definition turns on the device and liquid type rather than nicotine content, so flavored zero-nicotine liquid is treated the same as the strongest pod.
Yes. Empty accessories carry no tobacco and no nicotine: cases, stands, organizers and humidors all quote as ordinary goods when described accurately.