The easiest way to find out if we can ship your parcel is to check our full prohibited items list below or contact our team directly.
The items listed below (or any item similar in description or content) qualify as Prohibited Items and must not be sent on any Parcel2Go service.
Any Customer sending such items using the Parcel2Go services may be subject to their order being cancelled without notice.
Parcel2Go will assume no responsibility or liability for any such Prohibited Items being sent using its services.
Parcel2Go shall have full discretion to dispose of the Prohibited Items in whichever manner it considers appropriate (including the destruction of the Prohibited Items). The Customer agrees to reimburse Parcel2Go without delay for the costs of removing the Prohibited Items from transportation/delivery, destroying it or returning it to the Customer.
The Prohibited Items are broadly classified into the following categories:
Items that are banned by national or international legislation, conventions, provisions or regulations in the country of origin of the item, in the country of destination of the item and/or in any third country through which the item will be carried.
Items that are identified as Dangerous Goods and banned by instructions, regulations, agreements and conventions relating to Dangerous Goods, such as the Technical instructions issued by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Dangerous goods regulations of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code, the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Convention and its regulations.
Items which may inflict personal injury, infect persons or cause damage to property.
Items which are prohibited, such as counterfeiting items or piracy items, illegal narcotics/drugs or psychotropic substances, illegal pornography, falsified and other illegal medical products, fraudulent or deceitful items and/or illegal lotteries.
A non-exhaustive list of Prohibited Items is set out below. If an item is not listed below, but falls within the above categories, then it is a Prohibited Item:
Aerosol
Aftershaves
Air Bag
Alcoholic Beverages
Ammunition
Animals Of Any Form (Alive or Dead)
Any Item Containing Petrol (Liquid, Gas or Fumes)
Aromatherapy Oil
Bathroom Suites
Batteries
Biological Samples
Camera
Canoes / Kayaks
Car Panel
Cash, Credit Cards, Debit Cards
Chainsaw
Cheques
Christmas Crackers
Concrete
Confectionery
Counterfeit Currency
Credit/Debit/Cash Cards
Dangerous Goods
Disposable Vapes
Documents (outside the EU)
Driving Licence
Drugs (Including prescriptions)
Engines
Explosives
Filth
Fire Extinguisher
Firearms (or parts of firearms, firearms accessories or imitations of firearms)
Fish (Live or Dead)
Food
Food Items (Perishable Goods)
Fragrance
Gardening and Household Tools, Unless Properly Protected
Gearbox
Gun
Hazardous Goods
Human Remains
Infectious Substances
Ingestible Items
Item Described as "Unknown"
Jewellery
Juice
Kitchen Appliances – White Goods/Coffee Machines/Microwaves
Knives
Ladders
Leather
Lighter
Lights/Lighting/Lamps/Chandeliers
Liquids/Creams/Oils
Lottery Tickets
Mattresses
Meat
Medical Equipment
Medical waste
Milk Powder (Restricted in China)
Minerals
Mobile Phone with or without SIM to any Residential Address in Turkey/Pakistan
Money/Cash/Currency
Nail Varnish
Oil
Paint
Paintings/Canvas Prints
Passport
Perfumes
Perishable Goods
Perishable biological substances
Plant
Printer Toner
Protein/Health Shakes
Replica Weapons
Seatbelt Tensioner
Settee
Sharp Instruments - E.G. Knives Scissors and Axes.
Sinks/Basins
Slush Syrup
Soap
Sofa
Spectacles / Sunglasses
Stamps (Unless Franked)
Steering Wheel
Tea (Leaves, Bags Etc.)
Telescopes
Tickets
Tobacco And Tobacco Products
Toilets
Unboxed Furniture
Vehicle Bonnet
Vehicle Bumper
Vehicle Door
Water
Weapons (or parts of weapons, weapons accessories or imitations of weapons)
White Goods (Fridges, Ovens, Freezers, Cooker Hoods, Etc)
Window
Windscreen
Wooden Items
Special Provisions:
Amplifiers - maximum Parcel Protection value for damages is £200, up to £1,000 for lost items.
Apple Mac/Macpro - maximum Parcel Protection value for lost items is £1,000. (iMacs are protected for loss only).
Banjo/Guitar/Cello/Violin - maximum Parcel Protection value for damages is £100, up to £1,000 for lost items. Musical instruments must be sent in a hard case.
Parcel2Go may update this document at any time. Further terms and conditions relating to Prohibited Items are set out in our Terms and Conditions.
The items listed below (or any item similar in description or content) qualify as No Protection Items and may only be carried on a no protection basis on any Parcel2Go service.
Any Customer handing over such items to Parcel2Go for transportation and delivery does so entirely at their own risk. Parcel2Go shall never be liable for lost, damaged or delayed No Protection Items.
Amber
Antiques
Art
Banknotes
Bills of Lading
Bonds
Bottles
Bulbs
Ceramics/Figures/Figurines
Cheques (crossed and uncrossed / cancelled and uncancelled)
China/Porcelain
Clock
Coffee Machines
Coins
Computer Monitor/Imac
Coupons
Crockery/Pots/Pottery
Crystal
Delicate Items
Detergent
Diamonds
Documents
Fiberglass
Fish Tank
Fishing Rods
Fragile Items (All)
Framed Painting/Photograph
Gems Or Gemstones
Glass/Glassware
Jewellery
Jewels
Hamper
Lampshades
Lenses
Lottery tickets
Marble
Microscope
Microwave
Mirror
Money
Mortgage notes
Ornament
Over Head Projector
Packaging/Media Packaging
Passports
Pearls
Pewter Figures
Picture Frames
Poster
Precious Metals (Gold/Silver/Platinum Etc.)
Precious Stones
Projector
Real Fur
Resin
Saving books
Scanner
Securities (readily realizable)
Sewing/Knitting Machine
Share and option certificates
Shower Screen
SIM Cards
Stamps
Stoneware
Suitcases/ Flightcases (Not Acceptable as Packaging)
Television
Tenders
Tiles
Torches
Traveler’s cheques
Turntables
Valuable accessories and spare parts
Vase
Velux
Vermiculite Board
Watch
Items requiring more information: The following items (or any item similar in description or content) can only be carried if the description is altered by the Customer prior to completing their order. Any Customer sending such items may be subject to their order being cancelled without notice and does so at their own risk potentially negating any parcel protection.
Please note that Parcel2Go is happy to carry these items provided that a clearer description of the items is provided in the more info section (assumes the item is not in the No Protection Items List or in the Prohibited Items List).
Car Part
Ebay
Gift
Personal Item
Parcel2Go may update this document at any time. Further terms and conditions relating to No Protection Items are set out in our Terms and Conditions.