When sending items overseas it's important to know which service best meets your needs as well as checking whether the item you are sending is allowed in the destination country. You'll also find other helpful information here to ensure your item arrives quickly and safely.
Service | Compensation | Delivery aim | Weight up to |
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International Tracked |
up to £50 up to £250 for an additional fee |
3-5 working days |
2kg Buy now |
International Signed |
up to £50 up to £250 for an additional fee |
3-5 working days |
2kg Buy now |
International Standard | up to £20 | 3-5 working days |
2kg Buy now |
International Economy | up to £20 |
Up to 5 weeks |
2kg Buy now |
If you are sending books and pamphlets the weight limit goes up to 5kg.
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Prohibitions
Here is an indication of prohibited items for mailing to Estonia. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Estonia Post Office website
Please also refer to the Universal Postal Union - online prohibitions search tool
You must not send any item addressed to a country in which the item is unlawful or prohibited. When an item is restricted you must comply with the restriction. Prohibitions and restrictions vary from country to country, and can sometimes apply to items which you may think are ordinary. The information below is provided in good faith, but Royal Mail is not responsible for it, and it should be viewed as a guide only. Specific restrictions and changes may be enforced at short notice, so for clarification please contact the destination country's trade, postal, and customs authorities as appropriate. Business customers are strongly recommended to do this.
Please remember that Royal Mail also prohibits and restricts certain categories of items. For more information read our guidelines on international prohibited goods and international restricted goods
Prohibited items
Prohibited products are not permitted in the mail under any circumstances.
- Vegetable products
- Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
- Cereals
- Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
- Products of the chemical or allied industries
- Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
- Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
- Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof
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Restrictions
Here is an indication of restricted items for mailing to Estonia. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Estonia Post Office website
Please also refer to the Universal Postal Union - online prohibitions search tool
You must not send any item addressed to a country in which the item is unlawful or prohibited. When an item is restricted you must comply with the restriction. Prohibitions and restrictions vary from country to country, and can sometimes apply to items which you may think are ordinary. The information above is provided in good faith, but Royal Mail is not responsible for it, and it should be viewed as a guide only. Specific restrictions and changes may be enforced at short notice, so for clarification please contact the destination country's trade, postal, and customs authorities as appropriate. Business customers are strongly recommended to do this.
Please remember that Royal Mail also prohibits and restricts certain categories of items. For more information read our guidelines on international prohibited goods and international restricted goods
Restricted items
- Live animals; animal products
- Live animals
- Meat and edible meat offal
- Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
- Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
- Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
- Vegetable products
- Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
- Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
- Coffee, tea, maté and spices
- Cereals
- Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
- Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
- Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
- Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
- Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
- Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
- Products of the chemical or allied industries
- Organic chemicals
- Pharmaceutical products
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Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
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More information
Estonian Post requests that designated operators of other Union member countries ask customers to include, if possible, a telephone/mobile number and an e-mail address for the addressee, as part of the full address data, which should consist of the following:
- Name of the addressee
- Street name and house number or building and apartment number
- Village and municipality
- Postcode and city/county
- Destination country
- Telephone/mobile phone number, if possible
- Addressee's e-mail address, if possible
For more information about posting an item to Estonia please refer to the Estonia Post Office website
Customs and Brexit
On 24 December 2020, the UK and the EU reached an agreement on how to trade (the Trade and Cooperation Agreement). It entered into force on 1 January 2021. As a result of the agreement, the UK is no longer part of the EU’s single market and customs union and new rules apply.
From 1 January, the UK has extended the rules which applied to non-EU postal items before. Similarly, the EU now treats postal items from the UK as it did non-EU items before. This means there may be changes to how you send and receive items from abroad.
For more information on how sending and receiving items to the EU may be impacted from 1 January, please click here.

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