Namibia

Here is an indication of prohibited items for mailing to Namibia. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Namibian Post 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 visit royalmail.com/prohibitedgoods

Prohibited items

Prohibited products are not permitted in the mail under any circumstances.

• Live animals; animal products
• Live animals
• Meat and edible meat offal
• Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
• Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Products of the chemical or allied industries
• Organic chemicals
• Pharmaceutical products
• Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
• Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
• Photographic or cinematographic products
• Miscellaneous chemical products
• Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)
• Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather
• Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof
• Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin
• Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof