DPD list of restricted items

[darkbright]

Some are common sense but it makes you wonder how anyone ever sends anything with them.

I assume it’s the same for most carriers.

• Active Mobile Phones Outside The EU
• Aerosol
• Aftershaves
• Air Bag
• Amber
• Ammunition
• Animals Or Organisms Of Any Form (Alive Or Dead)
• Antiques
• Any Articles (Or Part Of Them) That Are Made Up Of China, Glass, Porcelain, Earthenware Or Other Similar Materials
• Any Item Containing Petrol (Liquid, Gas Or Fumes)
• Aromatherapy Oil
• Art
• Bank Card
• Basin
• Basins
• Batteries
• Beds & Headboards
• Biological Samples
• Birds
• Boiler/Boilers
• Bottles
• Bulbs
• Camera
• Camping Gas All Types
• Canvas Print
• Car Panel
• Cash, Credit Cards, Debit Cards
• Ceramics/Figures/Figurines
• Chainsaw
• Cheques
• China/Porcelain
• Chocolate
• Christmas Crackers
• Clock
• Coffee Machines
• Computer Monitor/Monitors/Imac
• Concrete
• Confectionery
• Counterfeit Currency
• Covid Test
• Credit/Debit/Cash Cards
• Crockery/Pots/Pottery
• Crystal
• Dangerous Goods
• Delicate Items
• Detergent
• Diamonds
• Diffuser
• Documents
• Domestic Appliances (Washing Machines, Dryers, Fridges, Ovens)
• Driving Licence
• Drugs (Including Prescription)
• Engines
• Fiberglass
• Fire Crackers
• Fire Extinguisher
• Firearms
• Fireworks
• Fish (Live Or Dead)
• Fish Tank
• Fishing Rods
• Flammable Goods
• Fragile Items (All)
• Fragrance
• Framed Painting/Photograph
• Furniture (Including Flat-Packed)
• Furs
• FXS
• Gearbox
• Gems Or Gemstones
• Glass (DPD Local)
• Glass/Glassware
• Granite Products
• Hamper
• Hazardous Goods
• Headlight
• Hover Board/Swegway/Segway
• Human Flesh
• Human Remains
• Infectious Substances
• Item Described As "Unknown"
• Ivory
• Jewellery Including Watches
• Juice
• Kayaks
• Knives
• Ladders
• Lampshades
• Legal Or Business Documents
• Lenses
• Lighter
• Lights/Lighting/Lamps/Chandeliers
• Liquids/Creams/Oils
• Lottery Tickets
• Machines
• Magnets
• Marble Products
• Mattresses
• Meat
• Medical Equipment
• Microscope
• Microwave
• Milk Powder (Formula)
• Mirror
• Mobile Phone/Mobile Phones With Or Without Sim To Any Address In Turkey/Pakistan/Ecuador
• Money/Cash/Currency/Vouchers
• Nail Varnish
• Oil
• Ornament
• Over Head Projector
• Packaging/Media Packaging
• Paint
• Painting/Pictures
• Passport
• Perfumes
• Perishable Goods (All)
• Personal Belongings
• Personal Items
• Petrol Or Diesel Tanks (Full Or Empty) In Any Item
• Pewter Figures
• Picture Frames
• Plant/S
• Poster
• Precious Metals (Gold/Silver/Platinum Etc.)
• Print
• Printer Toner/ Ink Cartridges
• Projector
• Real Fur
• Replica Weapons
• Resin
• Scanner
• Seatbelt Tensioner
• Settee
• Sewing/Knitting Machine
• Shower Screen
• SIM Cards
• Slush Syrup
• Slush Syrup
• Sofa
• Spectacles
• Stamps (Unless Franked)
• Steering Wheel
• Stoneware
• Suitcase
• Suitcases/ Flight Cases (Not Acceptable As Packaging)
• Surf Board
• Telescope
• Television
• Tickets
• Tiles
• Tobacco And Tobacco Products
• Toilets
• Torches
• Trees
• Turntables
• TV
• Tyres
• Vase
• Vehicle Bonnet
• Vehicle Bumper
• Vehicle Door
• Velux
• Vermiculite Board
• Vouchers With A Face Value
• Washbasin (DPD Local, ExpressPak)
• Watch
• Water
• Weapons
• Wheels
• Window
• Window Frame
• Wooden Items (Australia)

 

[Chippy_Tea]

That is one hell of a list.
I wonder how many on that list they haven't actually delivered, i bet its not many.

 

[Rodcx500z]

Do they pretend to deliver

 

[darkbright]

I assume that they know people lie but that protects them from any comeback. I just sent some “candles and a calendar” with them.

 

[aamcle]

If you have a contract the list is much shorter but for most ordinary people it's a problem.

 

[foxbat]

"human flesh" ???

 

[Brewnaldo]

"human flesh" ???

I use hermes for that.

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

Some are common sense but it makes you wonder how anyone ever sends anything with them.

I assume it’s the same for most carriers.

• Active Mobile Phones Outside The EU
• Aerosol
• Aftershaves
• Air Bag
• Amber
• Ammunition
• Animals Or Organisms Of Any Form (Alive Or Dead)
• Antiques
• Any Articles (Or Part Of Them) That Are Made Up Of China, Glass, Porcelain, Earthenware Or Other Similar Materials
• Any Item Containing Petrol (Liquid, Gas Or Fumes)
• Aromatherapy Oil
• Art
• Bank Card
• Basin
• Basins
• Batteries
• Beds & Headboards
• Biological Samples
• Birds
• Boiler/Boilers
• Bottles
• Bulbs
• Camera
• Camping Gas All Types
• Canvas Print
• Car Panel
• Cash, Credit Cards, Debit Cards
• Ceramics/Figures/Figurines
• Chainsaw
• Cheques
• China/Porcelain
• Chocolate
• Christmas Crackers
• Clock
• Coffee Machines
• Computer Monitor/Monitors/Imac
• Concrete
• Confectionery
• Counterfeit Currency
• Covid Test
• Credit/Debit/Cash Cards
• Crockery/Pots/Pottery
• Crystal
• Dangerous Goods
• Delicate Items
• Detergent
• Diamonds
• Diffuser
• Documents
• Domestic Appliances (Washing Machines, Dryers, Fridges, Ovens)
• Driving Licence
• Drugs (Including Prescription)
• Engines
• Fiberglass
• Fire Crackers
• Fire Extinguisher
• Firearms
• Fireworks
• Fish (Live Or Dead)
• Fish Tank
• Fishing Rods
• Flammable Goods
• Fragile Items (All)
• Fragrance
• Framed Painting/Photograph
• Furniture (Including Flat-Packed)
• Furs
• FXS
• Gearbox
• Gems Or Gemstones
• Glass (DPD Local)
• Glass/Glassware
• Granite Products
• Hamper
• Hazardous Goods
• Headlight
• Hover Board/Swegway/Segway
• Human Flesh
• Human Remains
• Infectious Substances
• Item Described As "Unknown"
• Ivory
• Jewellery Including Watches
• Juice
• Kayaks
• Knives
• Ladders
• Lampshades
• Legal Or Business Documents
• Lenses
• Lighter
• Lights/Lighting/Lamps/Chandeliers
• Liquids/Creams/Oils
• Lottery Tickets
• Machines
• Magnets
• Marble Products
• Mattresses
• Meat
• Medical Equipment
• Microscope
• Microwave
• Milk Powder (Formula)
• Mirror
• Mobile Phone/Mobile Phones With Or Without Sim To Any Address In Turkey/Pakistan/Ecuador
• Money/Cash/Currency/Vouchers
• Nail Varnish
• Oil
• Ornament
• Over Head Projector
• Packaging/Media Packaging
• Paint
• Painting/Pictures
• Passport
• Perfumes
• Perishable Goods (All)
• Personal Belongings
• Personal Items
• Petrol Or Diesel Tanks (Full Or Empty) In Any Item
• Pewter Figures
• Picture Frames
• Plant/S
• Poster
• Precious Metals (Gold/Silver/Platinum Etc.)
• Print
• Printer Toner/ Ink Cartridges
• Projector
• Real Fur
• Replica Weapons
• Resin
• Scanner
• Seatbelt Tensioner
• Settee
• Sewing/Knitting Machine
• Shower Screen
• SIM Cards
• Slush Syrup
• Slush Syrup
• Sofa
• Spectacles
• Stamps (Unless Franked)
• Steering Wheel
• Stoneware
• Suitcase
• Suitcases/ Flight Cases (Not Acceptable As Packaging)
• Surf Board
• Telescope
• Television
• Tickets
• Tiles
• Tobacco And Tobacco Products
• Toilets
• Torches
• Trees
• Turntables
• TV
• Tyres
• Vase
• Vehicle Bonnet
• Vehicle Bumper
• Vehicle Door
• Velux
• Vermiculite Board
• Vouchers With A Face Value
• Washbasin (DPD Local, ExpressPak)
• Watch
• Water
• Weapons
• Wheels
• Window
• Window Frame
• Wooden Items (Australia)

Guilty as charged. Not just them. We tried to send a Lynx gift set to someone in Australia for Christmas by Royal Mail Signed for. Blimey, got the package returned with an explosives sticker on it then two days later a letter from customs telling us how naughty we had been with a list similar to that above. I never knew how destructive those spray deodorants could be. I’m surprised we don’t hear about a dozen or so planes going down every day!

 

[darkbright]

"human flesh" ???

I missed that one!

 

[DocAnna]

Technically

• Animals Or Organisms Of Any Form (Alive Or Dead)

covers everything due to environmental bacteria on everything, including external packaging. So in a court situation (I'm not a lawyer but I'm fairly sure) this item alone would determine that the list was impossible to conform to and so invalidated as a prohibited description. Mind you 'personal items' covers that too.

 

[Eskimo John]

Wheels!
How many things have wheels on or in? From cogs to castors that's a massive exclusion.

 

[Clint]

They'd be better off writing a list of what you can send.
I get liquids in my brewing supplies (sanitiser) delivered by DPD.

 

[AlDaviz]

Not sure it was dpd but sold a fermenter (glass) a few years ago. It was well packaged,
Same as when it was sent to me. Got damaged During transit and I guess as most didn’t check the small print. Wasn’t covered by insurance !!

 

[MickDundee]

"human flesh" ???

I can’t imagine the sender of “human flesh” or “human remains” is going to say “wait a minute, I’m not allowed to send that!”

 

[Spanners]

I think the problem would be if a package got lost and was not delivered then you tried to claim on the postal insurance, they would be asking what you are sending and how much was it insured for, afterward they would probably inform you that you shouldnt have sent it anyway and you can't claim for that reason. A nice little insurance claim dodge wouldnt you say?

 

[Clint]

Let's write a list of the things you CAN send..
I can't think of anything!

 

[dad_of_jon]

I've had stuff on that list sent to me. Nothing illegal.

Let's write a list of the things you CAN send..
I can't think of anything!

fresh air?
cardboard
bubble wrap

 

[Dads_Ale]

I've had stuff on that list sent to me. Nothing illegal.

fresh air?
cardboard
bubble wrap

Probably just the fresh air as long as you don't wrap it up as 'packaging' is on the banned list as well as flammable goods.