Welcome to Parcel Post Leicester - Prohibited Items

The following items (or any item similar in description or content) can not be carried on any service.

  • Aerosol
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • Ammunition
  • Air bag
  • Air rifle
  • Animals of any form (alive or dead)
  • Battery containing liquid
  • Biological samples
  • Car batteries
  • Car bonnet
  • Car bumpers
  • Cash
  • Cheques
  • Christmas crackers
  • Counterfeit currency
  • Currency
  • Dangerous goods
  • Drugs (including prescription)
  • Filth, foul or disgusting material
  • Fire Extinguisher
  • Fish (live or dead)
  • Fluid
  • Gun
  • Hazardous goods
  • Human remains
  • Indecent, obscene or offensive articles
  • Infectious substances
  • Ink and toner cartridges - This applies to shipments leaving or entering mainland UK only not intra mainland UK collections/deliveries
  • Juice
  • Liquid
  • Living creatures
  • Lottery tickets
  • Meat
  • Money
  • Oil
  • Passport
  • Perishable goods (all)
  • Replica weapons
  • Plant
  • Rifle
  • Settee
  • Sinks
  • Sofa
  • Stamps (unless franked)
  • Toilets
  • Unknown
  • Water
  • Weapons
  • Wine

    • No Compensation items:

    The following items (or any item similar in description or content) can only be carried on a no compensation basis on any service. Any person sending such an item does so at their own risk:

    • Amber
    • Antique
    • beswick figures
    • Bottle
    • bottles
    • Bulbs
    • Camera
    • Canvas Print
    • Car Door
    • Car Panel
    • Ceramic
    • Ceramics
    • chandelier
    • China
    • chocolate
    • Clock
    • Computer Monitor
    • Concrete
    • confectionary
    • Crockery
    • Crystal
    • Delicate items (all)
    • Detergent
    • Diamonds
    • Dinner service
    • Dinner Set
    • dinner/tea set
    • Documents
    • fibreglass
    • Figurine
    • Fishing Rods
    • fish tank
    • Food
    • Fragile items (all)
    • Framed painting
    • Framed Photograph
    • Gems or gemstones
    • Glass
    • Glassware
    • Gold
    • Guitar (that are not sent in a hard case)
    • Hamper
    • Headlight
    • Jewellery
    • lamp
    • lenses
    • Lighting
    • Lights
    • Marble (or stone derivatives)
    • Microscope
    • Microwave
    • Mirror
    • Monitor
    • Negotiable documents
    • Ornament
    • Over head projector
    • paint
    • Painting
    • paints
    • Pewter figures
    • Picture
    • Picture frames
    • Plates
    • Porcelain
    • Pot
    • Pottery
    • Precious metals
    • Precious stones
    • Projector
    • Real fur
    • Resin
    • Scanner
    • Shower screen
    • Silver
    • SIM cards
    • slush syrup
    • Spectacles
    • syrup
    • tail lights
    • Tea set
    • Telescope
    • Television or computer monitor
    • tickets
    • tiles
    • Torches
    • various
    • Vase
    • velux
    • Watch
    • window
    • Window frame