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ParcelForce Prohibited Items

ParcelForce Prohibited Items

  • Aerosols for toiletry or medicinal purposes

  • Aerosols for any other purpose (including spray paints, etc.)

  • Alcoholic beverages containing more than 70% alcohol by volume (ABV)

  • Alcoholic beverages containing more than 24% but not more than 70% alcohol by volume (ABV)

  • Arms and Ammunition

  • Arms and Ammunition - low powered air weapons

  • Batteries that are classified as dangerous goods and certain used batteries, new wet, non-spillable

  • Batteries, specifically new and used lithium batteries when not sent with or connected to an electronic device

  • Batteries - new wet, non-spillable

  • Biological Substances

  • Bladed Products

  • Car Parts (panels, doors, bumpers and bonnets are prohibited. Other car parts are acceptable as long as packaging guidelines are followed)

  • Christmas Crackers

  • Clinical and medical waste (e.g. contaminated dressings, bandages and needles)

  • Controlled drugs and narcotics

  • Corrosives (including dyes, acids, corrosive paint and rust removers, caustic soda, mercury and gallium metal)

  • Counterfeit currency and counterfeit stamps are prohibited

  • Dry Ice

  • Electronic devices sent with lithium batteries

  • Environmental waste (including used batteries and used engine oil)

  • Explosives (including fireworks, flares, blasting caps, party poppers)

  • Financial documents

  • Flammable liquids (including petroleum, lighter fluid, certain adhesives, solvent based paints, wood varnish, enamels, acetone and all nail varnish removers)

  • Flammable solids (including magnesium, phosphorous, sodium, zinc powder and fire lighters)

  • Gases, including flammable, non-flammable, toxic and compressed gases

  • Hoverboards and electric scooters are prohibited to all destinations (UK and international)

  • Human and animal remains - Human remains (including ashes) and dead animals (including preserved animal parts and skins) are prohibited

  • Illegal lottery tickets - Tickets and related advertisements for illegal lotteries are prohibited

  • Indecent, obscene or offensive articles

  • Infectious substances and pathogens

  • Lighters and refills containing flammable liquid or gas (including new, used and empty butane, petrol cigar and cigarette lighters)

  • Liquids over 1 litre

  • Living creatures, bees, spiders fish fry and coral are all prohibited from our UK and International services

  • Magnetized material (with a field strength of 0.418A/metre or more at a distance of 4.6 metres from the outside of the package)

  • Matches (including safety matches)

  • Miscellaneous manufactured articles - Goods made in foreign prisons, except those imported for a non-commercial purpose of a kind not manufactured in the United Kingdom, or those in transit

  • Misleading endorsements

  • Nail varnish, polish or gel

  • Oxidising materials or organic peroxides (including disinfectants, nitrates and hair dyes or colourants containing peroxide)

  • Perfumes and aftershaves

  • Perishables Frozen / fresh pet food and meat for human consumption are prohibited

  • Pesticides (e.g. weed killer and any chemical used to kill pests and insects including fly sprays)

  • Poisons, toxic liquids, solids and gases

  • Radioactive materials and samples (Classified as dangerous goods such as luminous dials from aircraft)

  • Waste, dirt, filth or refuse

  • Weapons (including Section 5 firearms, CS gas and pepper sprays, flick knives, and other knives that are banned knives under UK laws, tasers and stun guns)