Shipping
Restricted items
This is an incomplete list.
Due to Federal regulations, boxes with this hazardous-materials marking cannot be reused. The symbol cannot be covered, removed, or crossed out. Packages left here with this symbol will be discarded without delivery.
IMPORTANT NOTE: We cannot ship prescription medications. We also do not pack or ship hazardous materials. That includes fuel, spray paint, aerosols, perfume, nail polish, loose lithium batteries, and anything that can leak, burn, or explode. If you are not sure, call 425.788.7441 before you bring it in.
UPS
These are examples UPS says it will not carry. The list is not complete.
Not allowed
- Prescription medications
- Anything the law forbids
- Cash, bank notes, or currency
- Common fireworks
- Hazardous waste
- Human remains, body parts, or embryos
- Ivory
- Marijuana, including medical marijuana, and CBD made from marijuana
- Postage stamps
- Shark fins
- Vape products anywhere in, into, or out of the United States
Not a regular drop-off
- Alcohol, including beer, wine, and spirits
- Ammunition
- Firearms and replica explosive weapons
- Cigarettes and other tobacco. Cigarettes to a consumer are not accepted
- Live animals, plants, and seeds
- Perishable food
- Dangerous goods and other hazardous materials
- Hemp and hemp-derived CBD, and only when the product meets the rules
FedEx
Not allowed
- Prescription medications
- Alcohol. A customer cannot ship it on this store’s FedEx account
- Tobacco: cigarettes, cigars, loose or smokeless tobacco, hookah, shisha, and e-cigarettes or their parts
- Marijuana, THC, and marijuana-derived CBD, even where those products are legal
- Firearms. Only a licensed dealer with FedEx’s written approval may ship them, and not from this counter
- Ammunition. FedEx does not take it from a retail shipping location
- Cash, coins, and currency
- Explosives, fireworks, flares, and anything that looks like a bomb or grenade, including a fake
- Live animals and household pets
- Hazardous waste, including used needles
- Dangerous goods such as fuel, spray cans, and flammable liquids
Hemp-derived CBD is the exception FedEx allows, and only when the THC is 0.3% or less and the shipment follows the law. Marijuana-derived CBD is not allowed.
USPS
We cannot accept these items. They must be taken directly to the Post Office.
Any USPS package containing a lithium battery or other hazardous substance must be taken directly to the Post Office.
Not allowed
- Prescription medications
- Air bags
- Ammunition
- Explosives
- Gasoline
- Liquid mercury, including antique thermometers and barometers that hold visible mercury
- Marijuana, medical or otherwise
Restricted, or easy to get wrong
- Cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and electronic nicotine devices are generally nonmailable
- Alcohol, except in narrow cases
- Handguns, except between licensed parties. Rifles and shotguns have their own rules and must be unloaded
- Strike-anywhere matches
- Perfume, nail polish, hand sanitizer, and many aerosols and glues. Some are ground-only, and some cannot be mailed
- Lithium batteries and other hazardous substances. We cannot accept these. Take the package directly to the Post Office
- Hemp and hemp-derived CBD only at 0.3% THC or less, with records kept, and not to international or military addresses
- Live animals, except in limited cases
Cremated remains are different. USPS can take them by Priority Mail Express in an approved kit. Ask us before you bring them.
We may open and inspect any package at our discretion. Packages with forbidden or misrepresented contents may be discarded without delivery.