Prohibited Items

  • Examples of items prohibited by UPS include, but are not limited to the following:

    • Animal skins (non-domesticated)

    • Articles of exceptional value (e.g., works of art, antiques, precious stones, gold and silver)

    • Dangerous goods/Hazardous materials (following IATA regulations for Express and Expedited, and following ADR regulations for Standard)

    • Firearms

    • Furs

    • Ivory and ivory products

    • Live animals

    • Money and negotiable items

    • Perishable goods

    • Personal effects (except via MBE Centres to selected countries)

    • Plants

    • Pornographic materials

    • Seeds

    • Tobacco and tobacco products

    • Unaccompanied baggage (except via MBE Centres to selected countries)

    • Watches exceeding the value of $500 USD or local Full list of UPS's prohibited items currency equivalent per parcel

    Full list of UPS's Prohibited Items

  • Examples of items prohibited by DHL include, but are not limited to the following:

    • Aerosols, perfumes and aftershaves including eau de parfum and eau de toilette

    • Batteries - damaged or defective

    • Batteries - loose of any type including but not limited to power banks, USB chargers and common household batteries

    • Cash

    • Cosmetics (EU only) including but not limited to makeup, hair dye and face creams

    • Credit / debit cards - activated and unactivated

    • Foodstuffs (EU only)

    • Medications (EU only) prescription and non-prescription, including supplements

    • Nail polish

    • Paracetamol

    • Power banks

    • Rechargeable wireless earbuds including but not limited to Apple AirPods and Samsung Galaxy Buds

    Full list of DHL’s Prohibited Items

  • Examples of items prohibited by UPS include, but are not limited to the following:

    • Ladders

    • Kayaks/Canoes

    • Carpet/Underlay

    • Real trees

    • Vehicle tyres

    • White goods

    • Beds/Mattresses

    • Un-wrapped metal

    • Engine (Not crated)

    • Live animals

    • Shed / Fence panels / Greenhouses

    • Unboxed furniture

    • Explosives, including fireworks

    • Party poppers

    • Firearms & weapons

    • Ashes/Human remains

    • Illegal narcotics

    • Cash (any currency)

    • Precious metals (i.e. gold/silver bullion)

    • Human organs

    • Counterfeit goods

    • Large gym equipment (requiring 2 man lift)

    Full list of TNT’s Prohibited Items

  • Examples of items prohibited by FedEx include, but are not limited to the following:

    • Carcinogenic substances

    • Copyright works

    • Eggs, excluding Specified Pathogen Free (SPF)

    • Personal consignments of foodstuffs containing products of animal origin

    • Firearms - including toy, replica, antique and paintball guns, weaponry and their parts

    • Flick and Gravity Knives

    • Foreign Prison made goods

    • Straw

    • Infectious Substance

    • Horror comics and material for printing horror comics

    • Jerky Products for private importation

    • Radio Actives

    • Wood, unprocessed

    • Whale by-products

    • Self Defense/Deterrent Sprays

    • All Animal Products - For exemptions see full list

    • Ammunition

    • Video-senders (used to transmit TV signals) within band 470-854 Mhz

    • Life size, anatomically correct mannequins (a)

    • Shipments subject to "Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora" (CITES).

    • Live Animals (including insects, fruit flies/drosophila melanogaster and nematodes).

    • All excise shipments (tobacco, alcohol) from within the EU are prohibited unless accompanied by proof of UK excise payment or excise duty suspension documents that includes the Administrative Reference Code (ARC).

    • Plants of Solanum melongena (Aubergine), Colocasia sp (Patra leaves), Momordica sp (Bitter gourd) and Trichosanthes sp (Snake gourd), originating in India

    • Hides, skins and apparel from the following animals: Castor Canadensis, Lutra Canadensis, Canis Iatrans, Canis lupus, Iynx Canadensis, Felis rufus , Martes zibellina, Procyon, Iotor, Ondatra zibethicus, Martes pennant, Taxidea taxus, Martes Americana and Mustela ermine are prohibited from certain countries. Send internal mail to stncustomsadminstncustomsadmincorp.ds.fedex.com for clarification on approved countries.

    • Commodities/products of Iranian origin ("Made in Iran") regardless to shipments origin or destination.

    (a) Prior investigation with UK Global Trade Services and ground operations is required. Send internal emails to - stncustomsadmin@corp.ds.fedex.com

    Full list of FedEx’s Prohibited Items

  • Examples of items prohibited by EVRI include, but are not limited to the following:

    • All items that have been badly packaged or strapped together

    • Perishable food or goods including chilled and frozen food, plants, seeds, flowers and plant derivatives

    • Liquids under 1000ml are accepted as long as they DO NOT contain prohibited contents like paints, oils, perfumes, aftershaves, inks, enamels and varnishes (including nail varnish). All liquids over 1000ml are prohibited

    • Glass items or fragile items that contain glass parts

    • Jewellery, diamonds and other precious stones, antique items or watches, with a value in excess of £999 are only coverable for compensation for up to £999

    • Laptops, computers and games consoles

    • TVs and monitors

    • Lighting equipment such as vehicle lights and light bulbs

    • Cameras, lenses, spectacles and optical equipment such as telescopes or binoculars

    • Paintings, prints or canvases

    • Musical instruments including their cases or suitcases when used as external packaging

    • Ceramic or composite items of any description including without limitation mirrored items, crystal, ceramics, porcelain, plaster, marble, china, stone, slate, resin, granite, concrete (or any item containing these materials)

    • Fossils, stones, marble, stoneware or any stone derivative

    • Articles made largely or wholly of gold, silver or other precious metals

    • Kitchen appliances such as white goods or electronic equipment with fragile/glass parts

    • Antiques - objects over 100 years old

    • Furniture - unless flat packed and safely packaged

    • Cheques or dividend warrants which are uncrossed and made payable to the bearer, uncrossed postal orders which do not state to whom they are to be paid, bankers' drafts, bearer securities including share warrants, bonds or relative coupons un-franked postage or revenue stamps – except a revenue stamp embossed or impressed on an instrument which has been executed

    • Coupons, vouchers, gift vouchers and cards, tokens, stamps, national insurance stamps, credit cards, debit cards, lottery tickets, scratch cards, SIM cards, tickets or passes such as for travel or events, currency notes or coins

    • Documentation – such as passports, driving licenses, medical, employment, property or commercial records

    • Memorabilia, photographs, signed items and vinyl records

    • Cameras, lenses, spectacles and optical equipment such as telescopes or binoculars

    • Internal damage of appliances, mechanical items or electronics is excluded from compensation

    • Tobacco and tobacco products

    • Real fur

    Full list of Evri’s Prohibited Items

  • Examples of items prohibited by Palletways include, but are not limited to the following:

    • Animal Parts, Skins Or Furs

    • Articles Of Exceptional Value (Works Of Art, Precious Stones, Gold And Silver)

    • Bloods

    • Car Batteries

    • Carbon Black Or Similar Products

    • Cash, Credit Cards, Debit Cards

    • Corrosive Substances E.G. Battery Acid And Drain Cleaner

    • Engines (Even If Drained Of Oil)

    • Explosives E.G. Fireworks, Sparklers, Munitions (War Materials And Ammunition)

    • Fire Extinguishers

    • Flammable Liquids

    • Flammable Solids

    • Gases E.G. Aerosols And Camping Gas Cylinders

    • Gearboxes

    • Hazardous Goods

    • Hot Tubs

    • Human Remains (Except For Ashes)

    • Illegal Drugs

    • Items Containing Flammable Liquids Or Solids

    • Items Containing Small Amounts Of Explosive E.G. Christmas Crackers

    • Ivory Or Ivory Products

    • Keys And Other Negotiable Items Of Monetary Or Personal Value

    • Lithium Batteries, Including Those In Battery Operated Toys And In Laptops

    • Livestock

    • Oxidising Substances And Organic Peroxides E.G. Hair Bleach

    • Passports, Birth And Death Certificates Or Other Unique Documentation

    • Perishable Goods E.G. Frozen, Refrigerated Or Fresh Food

    • Personal Effects Or Belongings

    • Plants Or Seeds

    • Pornographic Material

    • Prescribed Medicines

    • Radioactive Material E.G. Smoke Alarms And Luminous Dials (Found On Watches, Alarm Clocks Etc.)

    • Tobacco And Tobacco Products

    • Toxic And Infectious Substances E.G. Pesticides, Weed Killers And Poisons

    • Weapons E.G. Firearms, Swords And Knives

    • White Goods E.G. (Fridges, Ovens, Freezers, Cooker Hoods, Etc)

    Full list of Palletway’s Prohibited Items

  • Examples of items prohibited by Pallex include, but are not limited to the following:

    • Aerosols or any compressed gases

    • Animal furs

    • Articles of ‘exceptional value’ (Such as artwork, antiques, precious stones or gold)

    • Cash

    • Corrosive substances

    • Drugs

    • Engines, car batteries and other automotive parts

    • Explosives

    • Fire Extinguishers

    • Flammable gases

    • Flammable liquids and solids

    • Hot tubs

    • Human remains and human body parts

    • Livestock or any living creatures

    • Organic peroxides, such as hair bleach

    • Perishable goods, including fresh food

    • Pornographic materials

    • Prescribed medicines

    • Radioactive materials

    • Weapons, including guns (including paintball guns and air rifles), swords and knives

    Full list of Pallex’s Prohibited Items

  • Consignment which contains any:

    • obscene material

    • defamatory material

    • blasphemous material

    • scandalous or other indecent material, or any item (including, without limitation, drugs or other illegal substances) which are prohibited or illegal to possess or import

    Full details of CitySprints Prohibited Items

  • Examples of items prohibited by DPD include, but are not limited to the following:

    • Active Mobile Phones Outside The EU

    • Aerosol

    • Aftershaves

    • Air Bag

    • Amber

    • Ammunition

    • Animals Or Organisms Of Any Form (Alive Or Dead)

    • Antiques

    • Any Articles (Or Part Of Them) That Are Made Up Of China, Glass, Porcelain, Earthenware Or Other Similar Materials

    • Any Item Containing Petrol (Liquid, Gas Or Fumes)

    • Aromatherapy Oil

    • Art

    • Bank Card

    • Batteries

    • Beds & Headboards

    • Biological Samples

    • Birds

    • Boiler/Boilers

    • Bottles

    • Bulbs

    • Camera

    • Camping Gas All Types

    • Canvas Print

    • Car Panel

    • Cash, Credit Cards, Debit Cards

    • Chainsaw

    • Cheques

    • China/Porcelain

    • Chocolate

    • Christmas Crackers

    • Clock

    • Coffee Machines

    • Computer Monitor/Monitors/Imac

    • Concrete

    • Confectionery

    • Counterfeit Currency

    • Covid Test

    • Credit/Debit/Cash Cards

    • Crockery/Pots/Pottery

    • Crystal

    • Dangerous Goods

    • Delicate Items

    • Detergent

    • Diamonds

    • Diffuser

    • Documents

    • Domestic Appliances (Washing Machines, Dryers, Fridges, Ovens)

    • Driving Licence

    • Drugs (Including Prescription)

    • Engines

    • Fiberglass

    • Fire Crackers

    • Fire Extinguisher

    • Firearms

    • Fireworks

    • Fish (Live Or Dead)

    • Fish Tank

    • Fishing Rods

    • Flammable Goods

    • Fragile Items (All)

    • Fragrance

    • Framed Painting/Photograph

    • Furniture (Including Flat-Packed)

    • Furs

    • FXS

    • Gearbox

    • Gems Or Gemstones

    • Glass (DPD Local)

    • Glass/Glassware

    • Granite Products

    • Hamper

    • Hazardous Goods

    • Headlight

    • Hover Board/Swegway/Segway

    • Human Flesh

    • Human Remains

    • Infectious Substances

    • Item Described As "Unknown"

    • Ivory

    • Jewellery Including Watches

    • Juice

    • Kayaks

    • Knives

    • Ladders

    • Lampshades

    • Legal Or Business Documents

    • Lenses

    • Lighter

    • Lights/Lighting/Lamps/Chandeliers

    • Liquids/Creams/Oils

    • Lottery Tickets

    • Machines

    • Magnets

    • Marble Products

    • Mattresses

    • Meat

    • Medical Equipment

    • Microscope

    • Microwave

    • Milk Powder (Formula)

    • Mirror

    • Mobile Phone/Mobile Phones With Or Without Sim To Any Address In Turkey/Pakistan/Ecuador

    • Nail Varnish

    • Oil

    • Ornament

    • Over Head Projector

    • Packaging/Media Packaging

    • Paint

    • Painting/Pictures

    • Passport

    • Perfumes

    • Perishable Goods (All)

    • Personal Effects - Including Personal Belongings Or Personal Items

    • Petrol Or Diesel Tanks (Full Or Empty) In Any Item

    • Pewter Figures

    • Picture Frames

    • Plant/S

    • Poster

    • Precious Metals (Gold/Silver/Platinum Etc.)

    • Print

    • Printer Toner/ Ink Cartridges

    • Projector

    • Real Fur

    • Replica Weapons

    • Resin

    • Scanner

    • Seatbelt Tensioner

    • Settee

    • Sewing/Knitting Machine

    • Shower Screen

    • SIM Cards

    • Slush Syrup

    • Slush Syrup

    • Sofa

    • Spectacles

    • Stamps (Unless Franked)

    • Steering Wheel

    • Stoneware

    • Suitcase

    • Suitcases/ Flight Cases (Not Acceptable As Packaging)

    • Surf Board

    • Telescope

    • Television

    • Tickets

    • Tiles

    • Tobacco And Tobacco Products

    • Toilets

    • Torches

    • Trees

    • Turntables

    • TV

    • Tyres

    • Vase

    • Vehicle Bonnet

    • Vehicle Bumper

    • Vehicle Door

    • Velux

    • Vermiculite Board

    • Vouchers With A Face Value

    • Washbasin (DPD Local, ExpressPak)

    • Watch

    • Water

    • Weapons

    • Wheels

    • Window

    • Window Frame

    Full list of DPD’s Prohibited Items

  • Examples of items prohibited by DSV include, but are not limited to the following:

    • Consignments with insufficient packaging.

    • Dangerous goods which require special handling (e.g., those for which a DGR statement is required.

    • Valuable consignments (e.g., precious metals, jewels, etc.) and works of art.

    • Perishable goods (e.g., foodstuffs).

    • All types of weapons as well as self-igniting and explosive goods.

    • All types of removal goods.

    • All types of pharmaceuticals.

    • Plants and animals.

    • Currency and securities including stamps.

    • Alcohol, tobacco and pornographic publications and articles.

    • All goods whose import and export is prohibited according to the applicable national regulations in each case.

    • Letter of credit consignments.

    • Cash on delivery consignments.

    • Jewellery and watch consignments with a value exceeding €500.

    • Furs.

    • Computers, laptops, tablets, mobile phones above €25,000.

    Full list of DSV’s Prohibited Items

  • Examples of items prohibited by Exfreight include, but are not limited to the following:

    • Acid

    • Activated carbon (Carbon black)

    • Aerosols

    • Alarm devices (gas or battery powered)

    • Alcohol (more than 70%) by volume

    • Alkaline

    • Aluminum powder

    • Ammonia-based products

    • Ammunition

    • Animals (Alive or dead)

    • Antiques

    • Artwork

    • Asbestos

    • Batteries (automotive / wet cell)

    • Battery fluid

    • Blasting caps

    • Bleach

    • Brake fluid

    • Bullion

    • Butane

    • Camphor

    • Cash/Currency

    • Caustic soda

    • Charcoal

    • Chemicals

    • Chlorates

    • Chlorine

    • Corrosives

    • Electronics containing batteries

    • Essential oils (Eucalyptus, Tea Tree, etc.)

    • Explosives

    • Fertilizers

    • Firearms/Parts

    • Fireworks

    • Flammable liquids & solids

    • Flares

    • Furs and skins

    • Gas (Propane, Butane, Helium)

    • Gas cylinders

    • Hair coloring / bleaches

    • Human remains (including ashes)

    • Igniters

    • Illegal narcotic substances

    • Indecent goods and pornography

    • Insecticides

    • Jewellery

    • Kerosene

    • Knives

    • Lighter fluid

    • Liquid nitrogen

    • Lithium batteries

    • Magnets

    • Matches

    • Mercury

    • Motor fuels

    • Nail polish

    • Nail polish remover

    • Narcotics

    • Noxious substances

    • Oven cleaners

    • Oxygen tanks

    • Packages that are wet/odor

    • Paint (oil based)

    • Party poppers

    • Perfumes

    • Perishable foodstuff

    • Peroxides

    • Personal effects of any kind

    • Petrol

    • Phosphorous

    • Pianos

    • Plants/Seeds

    • Plastic solvent

    • Poison

    • Precious stones

    • Prescription drugs

    • Printer/copier toner

    • Propane

    • Radioactive materials

    • Shock absorbers

    • Smoke signals

    • Solvents

    • Sodium

    • Sulphuric acid

    • Textile dyes

    • Thermometers (mercury)

    • Tobacco and any product containing nicotine

    • Weapons (all)

    • Turpentine

    • Vape juice

    • Varnish

    • Works of art

    • Zinc powder

    Full list of ExFreight’s Prohibited Items