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 Signed |
up to £50 up to £250 for an additional fee |
5-7 working days |
2kg Buy now |
International Standard | up to £20 | 6-7 working days |
2kg Buy now |
International Economy | up to £20 | Up to 8 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 Saint Lucia. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Saint Lucia 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
- Vegetable products
- Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
- Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
- Beverages, spirits and vinegar
- Products of the chemical or allied industries
- Pharmaceutical products
- Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
- Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof
- Rubber and articles thereof
- Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof
- Base metals and articles of base metal
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Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
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Restrictions
Here is an indication of restricted items for mailing to Saint Lucia. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Saint Lucia 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 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 visit royalmail.com/prohibitedgoods
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
- Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
- Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
- Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
- Coffee, tea, maté and spices
- Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
- Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
- Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included
- Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
- Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
- Products of the chemical or allied industries
- Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
- 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
- Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)
- Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof
- Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
- Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
- Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair
- Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair
- Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
- Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
- Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers and parts and accessories of such articles
- Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment
- Vehicles, other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof
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Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
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More information
For more information about posting an item to Saint Lucia please refer to the Saint Lucia Post website

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