Forbidden items in shipments

Migrations, the development of mail order sales, and also a pandemic period, availability of services provided by air means that postal customers are increasingly sending parcels, also abroad. However, not everyone is aware of the restrictions that apply when setting various items. 

In addition to the provisions imposed by you, i.e. those to which a given parcel will go according to its address, there are provisions resulting from security rules, for example during air transport. Even with general knowledge about these circumstances, not everyone is aware that the usual battery can turn out to be explosive or a corrosive material above the ground. That is why the battery must not be broadcast. Like many other things that seem to seem innocent and safe.

Before the customer chooses items that he would like to send in the package, he should look whether they have warning RHS on labels. Almost all prohibited products for safety reasons are marked with characteristic signs. They warn against types of threats, e.g. that they are flammable or that they can explode, which disqualifies them as a postal content.

Fire and smoke

In addition to the aforementioned batteries, there is a large group of goods that cannot be broadcast under any circumstances. These are drugs, psychotropic and intoxicants, except for popular coffee and alcohol stimulants. Not only flares, flash, fireworks or cold fires are dangerous during transport, which customers give with pleasure in the pre -Christmas and pre -investors - not being aware that cold fires are a material that is a fire hazard - but also concentrates for the production of high alcohol perfumes, aerosols, paints in pressure containers.

A separate category are radioactive substances or items. It is also forbidden to send weapons, ammunition and even disarmed bullets, which are often considered collector's items, although it is not always sure whether they have been completely disarmed. You must not even send replicas of these devices (e.g. weapons).

A group of items that are forbidden to create danger, dirtying or may damage other shipments or postal devices, even contain batteries that appear in this text. One-time leaks, lithium-ion exploses. In addition, paints and varnishes, as well as deodorants and aerosols, are dangerous in aircraft, which in certain pressure and thermal conditions also have a tendency to explode, leakage and dirty.

Ethics of transport

An obvious ban covers both live animals and ashes or remains - animal and human. Other items requiring special treatment in transport are prohibited, as is indecent and immoral objects - e.g. pornographic recordings as well as counterfeit objects and pirate copies.

Not everything to the country either

We also remind you that there are also a number of prohibitions in domestic trade. A significant part of them is repeated with restrictions established for foreign shipments. Thus, there are no shipments for displacement and delivery:

• containing dangerous things that can cause damage to people, property or the natural environment, in particular: batteries, flammable, explosive, radioactive materials;
• Corrhician, stinking substances, weapons or ammunition, weapons devoid of utility features, other items with the appearance of weapons;
• containing items that unpacked visible parts or the packaging itself contain inscriptions or drawings that violate goods protected by law;
• containing drugs, intoxicants and psychotropic substances;
• containing corpses, remains, human and animal ashes;
• containing live animals, excluding insects and live birds, with shipments with insects, live birds and live plants must be properly marked and cannot be addressed to receipts that are a parcel automaton or a partner point;
• The packaging of which indicates: hindering the reading of the address, similar to the imprints of postal seals as well as stickers and prints, used both by Polish Post and by other postal operators, containing the features of written correspondence, and in particular indicating the manner in which its transport and delivery;
• containing other things prohibited by law and whose content and image are prohibited by law;
• on the packaging of which metal or plastic clamps, clips, staples and other similar materials were placed;
• with the content of money, means of payment, securities, valuables, unless the sender declared the value when sending the parcel.

Detailed information can be found in the Services Regulations, which are available at: https://www.poczta-polska.pl/ and https://www.pocztex.pl/