Prohibited items for mail to United Kingdom

Items prohibited or restricted when posting to United Kingdom from Sri Lanka by Sri Lanka Post airmail or seamail.

• Aerosols
• Alcoholic Berages (above 24% A...
• Alcoholic Beverages (below 24%...
• Ammunition
• Animal furs and skins
• Asbestos
• Balloons filled with non-flamm...
• Batteries - Lithium metal/allo...
• Batteries - new alkaline metai...
• Batteries - new and used lithi...
• Batteries - new and used lithi...
• Batteries - new wet; non-spill...
• Batteries classified as danger...
• Biological substances (includi...
• Bladed Items; including but no...
• Bowel screening samples
• Christmas Crackers
• Clinical and medical waste (in...
• Coins; platinum; gold or silve...
• Commercial Plant Imports
• Controlled drugs and narcotics...
• Corrosives (including dyes; ac...
• Counterfeit currency; bank not...
• Cultural Goods
• Dairy produce: birds' eggs: na...
• DNA samples
• Dry Ice (eg UN1845 when used a...
• E-cigarettes
• Electronic items containin any...
• Electronic items sent with lit...
• Electronic items sent with lit...
• Electronic items sent with new...
• Endangered species - dead (eg...
• Environmental waste (including...
• Environmentally hazardous subs...
• Explosives (including firework...
• Feed and Food imports - includ...
• Flammable liquids (including p...
• Flammable solids (including ma...
• Frozen water (including packs...
• Gases (including flammable; no...
• Goods made in foreign prisons...
• Guns for sporting use (Guns in...
• Human or animal remains (inclu...
• Infectious substances and path...
• Lighters (new and unused empty...
• Lighters and refills containin...
• Liquids over 1 litre (containi...
• Lithium ion/polymer batteries...
• Live animals and reptiles (inc...
• Live creatures classified as d...
• Live creatures; insects and in...
• Lottery tickets
• Magnestised material - with a...
• Magnestised material (other th...
• Matches (including safety matc...
• Nail varnish; polish and gel
• Obscene publications and unlaw...
• Oxidising materials and organi...
• Paints wood stains and enamels...
• Paints; wood varnishes and ena...
• Perfume and aftershave (includ...
• Perishables (including flowers...
• Pesticides (including weed kil...
• Please check on the destinatio...
• Poisons; toxic liquids; solids...
• Prescription medicines and dru...
• Prescription medicines and dru...
• Radioactive material and sampl...
• Radioactive material and sampl...
• Sharp or Pointed Items (former...
• Tickets and related advertisem...
• Vaccines
• Waste; dirt; filth or refuse (...
• Weapons: Includes items made f...
• Worked ivory; bone; tortoisesh...