Items prohibited for air shipping:

• Everything prohibited or outlawed for shipping by land.
• All parcels' packaging conditions must be inspected; those improperly packaged must be repackaged according to air shipping standards. Thus, it is prohibited to ship improperly packaged items that are likely to be damaged or broken during the transportation process.
• For express flight routes, shipping items weighing above 30 kilos is prohibited.
• For express routes, cartons or sacks with proportions above 120cm (one edge) are allowed only after coordination with the relative express department.
• Shipping items that have not been tagged with express services labels or whose exact weight is not calculated.
• Any type of spray, cologne or any other under-pressure liquid or gas that is enclosed in a bottle is prohibited from air shipping due to the inflammable nature of such items. All types of alcoholic sprays and colognes are prohibited due to the inflammable nature of the substance.
• Batteries: Shipping batteries due to the possibility of creating a magnetic field and combustibility of the item in high pressures on the airplane. Power banks and rechargeable battery-operated toys follow the same rule.
• Enclosed iron storage spaces are prohibited from air shipping since their contents cannot be inspected
• Refrigerators and freezers are prohibited from air shipping due to the gas stored inside such items.
• List of prohibited items on a flight:
  • All types of liquids, flammables, inflammables, or combustibles, including but not limited to nitroglycerin, gasoline, alcohol, acetone, and ether
  • All types of bug sprays and repellents
  • Toxic, non-toxic, or anesthetic chemical capsules, both laboratory, and military kinds, and combustible and smoke oxygen tanks (full or empty)
  • Dry ice
  • Matches, lighters, and the like.
• Edible acids
  • Various kinds of mineral acids, including nitric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, ammonia, etc.
  • Various types of pickled foods whose ingredients include such substances as vinegar, lemon juice, verjuice, etc.
  • Various types of batteries used on automobiles and motorcycles containing electrolyte
  • Various kinds of frozen and dried foods (fish, chicken, red meat, and the like)
  • Various types of edibles (jam, paste kept in open containers, etc.)
• Cold weapons & firearms
  • Swords, daggers, cutlasses, knives, axes, crowbars, bats, and the like
  • Firearms, bullets, various types of explosive powders, any material used as fireworks (firecrackers), smoke bombs. Various types of firearms, including but not limited to pistols, handguns, hunting weapons, and rubber bullet weapons.
  • Firearm parts and equipment (except for sights)
  • Air guns, along with other CO2 guns.
  • Signal pistols and starting pistols (sport pistol)
  • Harpoons used for hunting whales, and any other weapon with a spear attachment
  • Electrical fuses and detonators
  • Mines, grenades, gunpowder, and explosive military materials
  • Dynamite, grenades, gunpowder, and explosive military materials
  • Various types of badly-packaged items (screwdrivers, wrenches, blades, glass bottles) empty or full, and the like
  • Pepper spray, tear gas, acid sprays, and animal deterrent sprays.
  • Various types of knives, and scissors, whose blade length is six cm or longer
• Other objects
  • Blowtorch
  • Saw, including portables wireless saws
  • Various martial arts supplies that have sharp blades or edges
  • Crowbar, handspike
  • Driller, and gun drills and twist drills
  • Various types of canned and tinned foods, and the like

List of items prohibited by customs:

• The list of postal items prohibited by customs includes:
  • Placing personal correspondences inside the mailed items (parcels, small packages, publications, corresponding tools for the blind, etc.)
  • Placing valuable objects such as gold, silver, jewelry, cash, securities, uninsured postal envelopes.
  • Goods whose nature or shape poses a danger to the post office employees or damages and/or spoils other goods.
  • Except for insured mail (with a declared value), mailing letters containing cash, securities, cheques, promissory notes, traveler's cheques, bank cheques, and banker's draft is prohibited.
  • Writings in Braille code cannot contain attachments or other notes
  • Gambling equipment is used to set up win/lose games such as backgammon, cards, etc.
  • The skin of animals whose meat is haram (forbidden according to Islamic rules)
  • Musical instruments (can be released if licensed)
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • Firearms
  • Radioactive materials
  • Explosive materials
  • Narcotics and psychedelic drugs
  • Magazines containing obscenity
  • Manuscripts, ancient and reference books
  • Live animals with except for honey bees, leeches, silkworms, parasites, and other animals used for pest control that have been recognized as such by relevant authorities
  • Dry ink, dry or liquid paints that contain ink
• Prohibited and restricted postal goods for import
  • Second-hand clothes
  • Radio systems equipped with secondary and amplifying speakers (single upper-lower, beat frequency or fixed frequency oscillators, police bands)
  • FM-equipped radio systems with a frequency band range of 76 to MH287
  • Unrelated goods and items containing any form of the currency such as cash or securities
  • Narcotics and psychedelic drugs
  • Immoral and obscene material
  • Forged and stolen goods
  • Goods that-due to their improper packaging- might cause harm to post office employees, the general public or spoil and damage other goods.
  • Explosive, combustible, radioactive, or dangerous materials