On almost every lane the express product carries at least as much as the ordinary parcel product. Ukraine is the exception: Priority Mail Express International stops at 44 lb here, twenty-two pounds below Priority Mail International, and it reaches twenty-seven named cities rather than the whole country. Everything below comes from the country listing and the carrier alert pages as they stood on 2026-08-07.
Forty-four pounds and thirty-six inches on express. Sixty-six pounds and forty-two inches on the ordinary parcel.
| Product | Weight ceiling | Longest side | Length plus girth | Customs form |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priority Mail Express International | 44 lb | 36 in | 79 in | PS Form 2976-B inside PS Form 2976-E |
| Priority Mail International | 66 lb | 42 in | 79 in | PS Form 2976-A inside PS Form 2976-E |
| First-Class Package International Service | 4 lb | Per the international manual | PS Form 2976 | |
| First-Class Mail International | 3.5 oz letters, 15.994 oz large envelopes | Per the international manual | None, unless otherwise required | |
| Airmail M-bags | 66 lb | Per the international manual | PS Form 2976 | |
Seventy-nine inches of length plus girth is a tight envelope. A 42 by 12 by 12 inch carton measures 90 inches by that formula and is refused on both parcel products, even at a modest weight. Sizing a Ukraine shipment starts with the tape measure and only then moves to the scale, which is the reverse of the habit most senders bring from domestic ground.
Airmail M-bags are available at 66 lb, and they matter more here than on lanes where books can ride cheaply anyway. A sack of printed matter addressed to one recipient is the affordable way to move a library, a run of manuals or a batch of teaching material.
Priority Mail Express International is not a countrywide product to Ukraine. The listing prints the destinations it serves, and everything outside them has to travel on an ordinary parcel product.
Belaya Tserkov · Cherkassy · Chernigov · Chernovsty · Dnepropetrovsk · Donetsk · Ivano-Frankovsk · Kharkov · Kherson · Khmelnitskiy · Kirovograd · Kyiv · Lugansk · Lutsk · Lvov · Nikolaev · Odessa · Poltava · Rovno · Sevastopol · Simferopol · Sumy · Ternopol · Uzhgorod · Vinnitsa · Zaporozhiye · Zhitomir
The names are transliterated the way the listing prints them, which is not always the spelling on a modern map — Lvov for Lviv, Kharkov for Kharkiv. An address written the current way still routes; the list is about which post offices the product is offered to, not about how to spell the street. The postal areas-served list is also not a statement about conditions on the ground, so confirm with the person receiving the parcel that delivery is running where they are before paying an express price.
The prohibition list is longer than most and two entries on it routinely surprise people sending a care package.
Listed as prohibited, with prescription narcotic and psychotropic drugs named separately. Over-the-counter tablets tucked into a family parcel sit inside that description as squarely as anything from behind a pharmacy counter.
Tobacco products and manufactured tobacco substitutes are refused, which reaches vaping liquids and heated-tobacco refills as much as cigarettes.
Coins, banknotes, currency, securities, traveler’s checks, precious metals, gemstones and jewelry are prohibited, and so are passports and personal identity cards, agricultural products, and articles of cultural value such as works of art, collectors’ pieces and antiques.
Software and technical devices designed to intercept secret information are also barred, with an exception for the Ukrainian government.
Food is admitted, and the listing sets the terms tightly. It must be in manufacturer packaging, meet Ukrainian sanitary requirements, carry conformity certificates and be addressed to a Ukrainian resident. The quantity is capped by product.
Those chapters cover live animals, meat, fish, dairy, vegetables, cereals, sugar, cocoa and beverages, so the practical reading is that an express box of groceries is not on offer and a parcel box of them has a hard weight limit that sits well below the product ceiling.
Several categories move only when the addressee has arranged something first. None of these can be fixed by the sender after the box is in the system.
The listing puts the customs threshold plainly: “Goods that are mailed in one dispatch from one sender to a private individual or to a legal entity and that have a total value of 150 EUR or less are not subject to customs charges.” The unit is the dispatch, so two boxes sent the same day from the same sender to the same person are the thing being measured, not each box on its own.
Three details on the declaration are asked for by name and cost nothing to supply: the addressee’s mobile number on Registered Mail items so the SMS notification reaches them, the correct five-digit postcode, and the addressee’s email address where there is one.
Service status is the fact that changes the decision on this lane, and it is also the fact that goes stale fastest, so here is exactly what was on the two pages when they were read on 2026-08-07 and nothing more.
The two courier pages carried nothing for Ukraine, and an absence is weaker evidence than a presence. Read it as: nothing was posted, rather than: everything is running normally. The postal notice is the opposite case, a presence rather than a gap, and it is dated 2022 — the last thing Ukraine Post asked to have published on that page, not a description of this week.
Aid consignments and family parcels bound for Ukraine almost always have an American leg first: a drive or a shipment to a church, a collection point, a diaspora organization or a forwarder that consolidates before anything crosses the ocean. That leg is a plain domestic shipment, and the calculator prices it from two ZIP codes.
Once it is a pallet, or once it leaves the country, no button on this site produces the number. Freight review puts it in front of a person who prices it and says what the routing looks like.
This lane changes faster than the rest of the map. Treat every line above as a snapshot of 2026-08-07, and read the alerts pages yourself on the morning you buy the label.
No. Ukraine is not among the destinations the Postal Service lists with all international mail services suspended, which numbered thirteen when the page was read on 2026-08-07. Every postal product on the country listing is running except Global Express Guaranteed, suspended there as of September 29, 2024, and a 2022 disruption notice asks that items be routed in via Poland, Slovakia or Latvia.
Priority Mail International and Airmail M-bags both stop at 66 lb. Priority Mail Express International stops at 44 lb, and First-Class Package International Service at 4 lb.
Medicines and medicinal products are on the prohibition list, and prescription narcotic and psychotropic drugs are barred outright. Prescription medicines move only where the addressee holds authorization from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and the quantity is appropriate.
The listing states that goods mailed in one dispatch from one sender to a private individual or a legal entity with a total value of 150 EUR or less are not subject to customs charges.
That has to be checked with each carrier on the day. The FedEx service alerts page read on 2026-08-07 named Russia and Belarus as suspended, first reported February 24, 2022 and last confirmed April 13, 2026, and carried no Ukraine entry.