AFAIK there is no legal upper limit to how much pipe tobacco we can ship...as long as it is indeed for pipes.
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AFAIK there is no legal upper limit to how much pipe tobacco we can ship...as long as it is indeed for pipes.
This is my understanding as well, with the caveat all of these discussions are regarding domestic mail, not anything going international.
Corrected my original post. The upper limit applies to cigarettes/smokeless tobacco.
From a USPS fact sheet ragarding 39 CFR 111 Final Rule found here:
A commenter noted that the proposed rule does not expressly provide that pipe tobacco is mailable. The PACT Act restricts the mailability of items that the Postal Service has reasonable cause under the PACT Act to believe contain cigarettes or smokeless tobacco, as those terms are defined in Section 1 of the Jenkins Act of 1949 (15 U.S.C. § 375(2), (12) (as amended)). If a product falls outside of the PACT Act’s definitions for cigarettes or smokeless tobacco, then the product is not subject to the PACT Act’s restrictions, except where it happens to fall within the scope of the PACT Act’s reasonable cause standard. The fact that the PACT Act explicitly acknowledges the mailability of cigars, but not pipe tobacco or other extraneous tobacco products, does not suggest the nonmailability of those other tobacco products.
From a USPS fact sheet ragarding 39 CFR 111 Final Rule found here:
A commenter noted that the proposed rule does not expressly provide that pipe tobacco is mailable. The PACT Act restricts the mailability of items that the Postal Service has reasonable cause under the PACT Act to believe contain cigarettes or smokeless tobacco, as those terms are defined in Section 1 of the Jenkins Act of 1949 (15 U.S.C. § 375(2), (12) (as amended)). If a product falls outside of the PACT Act’s definitions for cigarettes or smokeless tobacco, then the product is not subject to the PACT Act’s restrictions, except where it happens to fall within the scope of the PACT Act’s reasonable cause standard. The fact that the PACT Act explicitly acknowledges the mailability of cigars, but not pipe tobacco or other extraneous tobacco products, does not suggest the nonmailability of those other tobacco products.
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