Making sure you're covered - New Zealand Post
Making sure you're covered - New Zealand Post
Making sure you're covered - New Zealand Post
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Quick reference guide to common prohibited items<br />
This list is a guide only; it is not a complete list of all prohibited items.<br />
Acid<br />
Adhesive products (containing<br />
flammable liquid)<br />
Aerosol cans (e.g. hairspray)<br />
Air bags (car)<br />
Alarm devices (gas or battery powered)<br />
Alcohol (more than 5 litres)<br />
Alcohol (more than 70% by volume)<br />
Alkaline<br />
Aluminium powder<br />
Ammonia-based products<br />
Ammunition<br />
Animals (except correctly packaged<br />
bees, leeches, silkworms and harmless<br />
insects)<br />
Anti-freeze<br />
Appliances (containing batteries)<br />
Asbestos<br />
Barometers<br />
Batteries (contained in any appliance<br />
– batteries must be removed and<br />
packaged separately)<br />
Batteries (made from lithium, some<br />
exceptions apply)<br />
Batteries (car or wet cell)<br />
Battery fluid<br />
Blasting caps<br />
Bleach<br />
Brake fluid<br />
Bullets<br />
Bullion<br />
Butane<br />
Camphor<br />
Caps for starting guns<br />
Caps for toy guns<br />
Carbon paper<br />
Cash, currency or vouchers/gift cards<br />
Caustic soda<br />
Charcoal<br />
Chemicals<br />
Chlorates<br />
Chlorine<br />
Christmas crackers<br />
Cigarette lighters<br />
Cleaning materials (liquid or powder)<br />
Compressed air<br />
Deodorant (aerosols)<br />
Disinfectants<br />
Drugs (unless in prescription<br />
quantities)<br />
Dry ice<br />
Dyes<br />
Essential oils (e.g. eucalyptus, tea tree)<br />
Fertilisers<br />
Fibreglass repair kits<br />
Fire extinguishers<br />
Fire lighters<br />
Firearms (including parts) and<br />
ammunition<br />
Fireworks (e.g. skyrockets, sparklers,<br />
crackers)<br />
First Aid kits<br />
Flares<br />
Flint lighters<br />
Jewellery, watches, precious metals<br />
or stones<br />
Furs and skins (untreated)<br />
Gas (e.g. propane, butane, hydrogen,<br />
helium)<br />
Gas cylinders (e.g. camping gas<br />
cylinders – full or empty)<br />
Generators (fuel powered)<br />
Glue (e.g. flammable, quick drying)<br />
Grenades (including imitation<br />
grenades)<br />
Hair colouring/bleaches<br />
Hairspray (aerosol)<br />
Human remains (including ashes)<br />
Igniters<br />
Indecent goods<br />
Insecticides<br />
Kerosene<br />
Laundry detergents<br />
Lighter fluid<br />
Liquid nitrogen<br />
Magnetic material<br />
Magnets<br />
Matches<br />
Mercury<br />
Motor fuels<br />
Nail polish<br />
Nail polish remover<br />
Narcotics<br />
Oven cleaners (containing caustic soda)<br />
Oxygen cylinders, including<br />
compressed air<br />
Paint (oil based)<br />
Party poppers<br />
Perfume (including aftershave,<br />
cologne)<br />
Peroxides<br />
Petrol<br />
Phosphorus<br />
Plastic solvent<br />
Poisons (e.g. cyanide, lead, arsenic)<br />
Polish<br />
Polyester resin kits<br />
Propane<br />
Shock absorbers<br />
(gas or compressed air)<br />
Signals, distress<br />
Signals, smoke<br />
Sodium<br />
Solvents<br />
Sparklers<br />
Stun guns, tasers and stun batons<br />
Sulphuric acid<br />
Swimming pool chemicals<br />
Tea tree oil<br />
Textile dyes<br />
Theatrical flares<br />
Thermometers (mercury)<br />
Toner (e.g. photocopier toner,<br />
toner cartridges)<br />
Toy caps<br />
Toys (containing batteries)<br />
Turpentine<br />
Varnish (e.g. removers, thinners)<br />
Watches<br />
Weapons, including bows, crossbows<br />
and arrows, harpoons, guns, spear<br />
guns, sling shots and catapults<br />
Weed killers<br />
Zinc powder<br />
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