Unacceptable Items for Carriage

Advance Baggage Service will not ship any item that is prohibited by any law, regulation, state, or local government. Below is a general list of materials that are strictly prohibited.

 

Prohibited Items

 

  Live or dead animals
  Prescription drugs
  Illegal narcotic substances
  Firearms (including parts) and Ammunition
  Fake/dummy/game/toy weapons
  Paint ball guns, BB guns, antique weapons, swords, knives, etc
  Items that could be used as weapons.
  Human remains (including ashes)
  Furs and skins (untreated)
  Indecent goods   pornography
  Any noxious substance
  Plants/Seeds
  Any unsolicited indecent item
  Foodstuff
  Perishable goods
  Any inadequately packaged item

 

Valuable Items

 

  Bullion
  Cash or currency
  Payment cards, traveler cheques, etc.
  Jewelry
  Precious metals & stones
  Works of Art
  Antiques
  Items of a fragile nature
  Packages that are wet, leaking or emit any odor of any kind

 

Dangerous Goods

 

All items, irrespective of packaging, listed in the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations are not to be sent by courier. These include:

 

  Acid
  Adhesive products (containing flammable liquid)
  Aerosol cans (e.g. Hair spray)
  Alarm devices (gas or battery powered)
  Alcohol (more than 5 liters)
  Alcohol (more than 70% by volume)
  Alkaline
  Aluminum powder
  Ammonial products
  Ammunition
  Anti-freeze
  Appliances (containing batteries)
  Asbestos
  Batteries (contained in any appliance)
  Batteries (made from lithium)
  Batteries (car or wet cell)
  Battery fluid
  Blasting caps
  Bleach
  Brake fluid
  Bullets
  Butane
  Camphor
  Caps for starting guns
  Caps for toy guns
  Caustic soda
  Charcoal
  Chemicals
  Chlorates
  Chlorine
  Christmas crackers
  Cigarette lighters
  Corrosives (e.g. nail polish)
  Deodorant (aerosols)
  Disinfectants
  Drugs (unless in prescription quantities)
  Dyes
  Explosives
  Electronic items (containing batteries)
  Essential oils (e.g. Eucalyptus, tea tree)
  Fertilizers
  Fire extinguishers
  Fire lighters
  Firearms
  Fireworks (e.g. Skyrockets, sparklers, crackers)
  Flammable liquids and flammable solids (e.g. perfume)
  Flares
  Flint lighters
  Gas (e.g. Propane, butane, hydrogen, helium)
  Gas cylinders (e.g. Camping gas cylinders ? full or empty)
  Glue (e.g. Flammable, quick drying)
  Grenades
  Hair coloring/bleaches
  Hairspray (aerosol)
  Highly magnetic, polymerizable goods
  Igniters
  Insecticides
  Kerosene
  Laundry detergents
  Lighter fluid
  Liquid nitrogen
  Lithium batteries
  Magnetic material
  Magnets
  Matches
  Mercury
  Mobile phones (unless battery separately wrapped)
  Motor fuels
  Nail polish
  Nail polish remover
  Narcotics
  Oven cleaners (which include caustic soda)
  Oxidizing substances and organic peroxides (e.g. hair dye)
  Oxygen cylinders
  Paint (oil based)
  Party poppers
  Perfume
  Perfumery products
  Peroxides
  Petrol
  Phosphorus
  Plastic solvent
  Poisons (e.g. Cyanide, lead, arsenic)
  Propane
  Radioactive materials
  Shock absorbers (gas or compressed air)
  Signals, distress
  Signals, smoke
  Sodium
  Solvents
  Sparklers
  Sulphuric acid
  Swimming pool chemicals
  Tea tree oil
  Textile dyes
  Theatrical flares
  Thermometers (mercury)
  Toner (e.g. Photocopier)
  Toxic (poisonous) and infectious substances.
  Toy caps
  Toys (containing batteries)
  Turpentine
  Varnish (e.g. Removers, thinners)
  Weed killers
  Zinc powder