Restricted & Prohibited Items in Courier
An Exceptional Items department has been set up to handle courier for prohibited items. In order to assist with any of the items mentioned below, or if you are unsure whether your courier items fall into the Exceptional Items department, please click here
Courier Prohibited Items
A prohibited item is any consignment or part thereof containing items through transport, handling, import, or export of which is prohibited under any applicable law, rule, convention, or regulation. As different borders have different restrictions, depending on the origin, destination, or even transit of the item, it is best that you check with the Exceptional Items department if your item/s could fall within this category
Prohibited items include (but are not limited to):
- 1 Aerosol (sprays or any pressurised cans)
- 2 Aftershave (pressurised or otherwise)
- 3 Alcohol (homemade or commercial)
- 4 Ammunition (homemade or commercial)
- 5 Animals of any form (alive or deceased) including insects
- 6 Antiques (precious or family heirlooms)
- 7 Aromatherapy Oil
- 8 Ashes
- 9 Basin
- 10 Battery
- 11 Bed/Bed Frame
- 12 Bikes
- 13 Biological laboratory samples
- 14 Canoe / Kayak
- 15 Cash/Credit Cards/Debit Cards
- 16 Chainsaw/Power-Saw/Handsaw
- 17 Cheque Books
- 18 Christmas Crackers
- 19 Cistern
- 20 Combust
- 21 Counterfeit Currency
- 22 Counterfeit Goods
- 23 Cream (face / body or otherwise)
- 24 Currency (from any country)
- 25 Dangerous Goods
- 26 Documents (outside the EU)
- 27 Driving Licence
- 28 Drugs (including all banned drugs, narcotics, and prescription drugs)
- 29 Engines ( of any size)
- 30 Explosive materials ( including dynamite)
- 31 Fine Art
- 32 Fire Extinguisher
- 33 Fireworks
- 34 Firearms or parts thereof, including real/replica guns, toys, antiques, and decommissioned firearms.
- 35 Fish (live or deceased)
- 36 Food Items (Perishable Goods)
- 37 Fragile Goods
- 38 Fragrance (perfumes / oils)
- 39 Fumes (any item containing fumes)
- 40 Gas (any item containing gas)
- 41 Gearbox (see Engines)
- 42 Hazardous Goods, Or Explosive Materials (any item that displays a UN number)
- 43 Household Furnishings
- 44 Human (bodies/ remains/ organs/ or any part thereof)
- 45 Knives (including swords or daggers whether for display or commercial use)
- 46 Laptops ( of any make)
- 47 Ladder/Step-Ladder
- 48 Lighter (personal for cigarettes or commercial)
- 49 Liquid/Cream/Oil (herbal or industrial)
- 50 Lottery Ticket
- 51 Mattress (Vacuum / Boxed Or Flat)
- 52 Medication
- 53 Milk Powder ( and any other baby produce tinned sealed or otherwise)
- 54 Mobile Phone with or without sim to any residential address in Turkey/Pakistan
- 55 Nail Varnish
- 56 Paint
- 57 Paper Currency/Coins
- 58 Party poppers
- 59 Passport
- 60 Perfumes
- 61 Perishable Goods (all)
- 62 Petrol
- 63 Plant/Tree
- 64 Porn Material (digital / printed / stored through USB)
- 65 Precious Metals
- 66 Printer Toner (permitted through international parcels only)
- 67 Seeds/Plant
- 68 Shed
- 69 Sink
- 70 Slush Syrups
- 71 Sofa
- 72 Stamps (unless franked)
- 73 Steering Wheel
- 74 Steroids
- 75 Suitcase
- 76 Television (flat screen or boxed)
- 77 Tickets (for shows / plays / theatre / sporting performances
- 78 Tobacco/Tobacco Products
- 79 Toilet
- 80 Tyres for any type of vehicles including wheels.
- 81 Vehicle Parts (bonnet/bumper/wheels/windscreen)
- 82 Water
- 83 White Goods (fridges, ovens, freezers, cooker hoods, etc.)