Rwanda

Here is an indication of prohibited items for mailing to Rwanda. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Rwandan 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.

• Articles which, by their nature or their packing, may represent a danger to officials or possibly damage or otherwise interfere with other mail
• Articles liable to customs duty unless sent as small packets or printed papers. The same applies to insured letters and boxes and samples of goods containing articles liable to customs duty, except when the country of destination admits such items
• Samples sent in bulk so as to avoid collection of exit duties
• Opium, morphine, cocaine and other narcotics, unless the dispatch is made for medical or scientific purposes in the form of an insured box for countries admitting them on that condition
• Articles prohibited from admission to or circulation in Rwanda
• Articles prohibited from admission to or circulation in other countries
• Live animals, except bees, leeches, silkworms, parasites and destroyers of harmful insects intended for the control of such insects and exchanged between officially recognized institutions
• Explosive, combustible or hazardous materials. However, the following are not regarded as hazardous: biological materials such as perishable biological materials consisting of live pathogenic micro-organisms or live pathogenic viruses as well as perishable biological materials which do not contain live pathogenic micro-organisms or live pathogenic viruses
• Obscene or immoral articles or articles bearing on the outside defamatory inscriptions or inscriptions contrary to public order or morals
• Any articles, on which the address side has been divided in whole or in part into several boxes intended for successive addresses
• Articles which relate in any way to so-called "snowball" operations
• Articles of correspondence, except those of a scientific nature, mainly concerning magic
• Sending items in a completely transparent envelope or in an envelope with an open panel or in an envelope with a transparent panel which gives off reflections in artificial light as well as items in envelopes with a transparent panel under which the address is written in pencil or indelible pencil is not permitted;
• Sending lottery tickets, prepayment forms and postage stamps, whether cancelled or not, in reduced-rate items; however, cancelled postage stamps included in business papers are admitted as such