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What Items Cannot Be Couriered? (NYC Restricted & Prohibited Items)

What Items Cannot Be Couriered? (NYC Restricted & Prohibited Items)

What items couriers can't ship in NYC.

What items couriers can't ship in NYC.

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What Items Cannot Be Couriered? (NYC Restricted & Prohibited Items)

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What Items Cannot Be Couriered? (NYC Restricted & Prohibited Items)

What Items Cannot Be Couriered? (NYC Restricted & Prohibited Items)

What items couriers can't ship in NYC.

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Items Couriers Generally Cannot Ship

Items Couriers Generally Cannot Ship

Standard courier services have legal and operational restrictions on certain item categories. Hazardous materials (hazmat): flammable liquids, explosives, compressed gases, corrosives, radioactive materials, infectious substances. These require DOT-certified hazmat transport with placarded vehicles and certified drivers. Illegal items: controlled substances without proper documentation, prohibited firearms, counterfeit goods, items violating customs regulations. Live animals: beyond very small lab specimens with proper protocols. Human remains: requires specialized mortuary transport, not standard courier. Cash and high-value precious metals: requires armored carrier service, not standard courier. Perishables without proper packaging: standard courier can't handle anything requiring active refrigeration or extended cold-chain (though we run refrigerated medical specimens with proper protocols — detail at our medical specimen handling guide). Items exceeding weight or size limits: single piece typically up to 12,000 lb for our 26-ft truck fleet (detail at our freight delivery and van and truck delivery).

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Specific NYC Restrictions and Workarounds

Specific NYC Restrictions and Workarounds

For items that fall in restricted categories, specialty services exist. Hazmat transport: requires DOT-certified hazmat carrier, not standard courier. We don't run hazmat. Cold-chain pharmacy and biologics: our medical courier service handles refrigerated medications, biologics, and lab specimens with proper temperature control and HIPAA-compliant chain of custody (detail at our pharmacy delivery guide and HIPAA-compliant delivery requirements). Controlled substances (Schedule II-V): requires DEA-compliant carrier with proper documentation. We coordinate Schedule III-V with appropriate pharmacy and licensee paperwork; Schedule II requires more specialized handling. High-value art and antiques: our white-glove delivery handles high-value with chain-of-custody documentation, condition reports, and museum-grade protocols (detail at our art delivery guide). Legal sealed material: our legal courier service handles with chain-of-custody documentation (detail at our chain-of-custody guide).

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What We Do Ship (Plus Coverage Across NYC + NJ)

What We Do Ship (Plus Coverage Across NYC + NJ)

We ship most categories of legal commercial and residential goods: legal documents and sealed envelopes (our legal courier service); medical specimens and HIPAA-compliant pharmacy (our medical courier service); corporate documents (our document delivery service); e-commerce and DTC parcels (our package delivery service); furniture and white-glove residential (our white-glove delivery); construction materials (our construction materials delivery); trade show and event (our trade show delivery); beverage and hospitality (our beverage delivery); retail and DC freight (our freight delivery); art and gallery (our art delivery service). Coverage: NYC courier service across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island. NJ via NJ courier hub; cross-state via NY-to-NJ, NY-to-Philadelphia, NY-to-Boston, NY-to-DC, NY-to-Baltimore, Brooklyn-to-Lakewood.

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