Saudi Arabia

Here is an indication of restricted items for mailing to Saudi Arabia. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Saudi Arabia 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
• 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
• Cereals
• Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
• 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
• 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, mollu
• scs or other aquatic invertebrates
• Sugars and sugar confectionery
• Cocoa and cocoa preparations
• Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
• Preparations of vegetables, fruits, nuts or other parts of plants
• Miscellaneous edible preparations
• Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder
• Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
• Products of the chemical or allied industries
• Pharmaceutical products
• Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
• Photographic or cinematographic products
• Miscellaneous chemical products
• Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof
• Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles
• Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
• No medicines, pharmaceutical or plant-based products and foodstuffs for medical purposes will be accepted without prior authorization from the General Food and Medicine Authority of Saudi Arabia.
  
  The contact details for obtaining authorization from the General Food and Medicine
  
  Authority of Saudi Arabia are as follows:
  3292, Northern Ring Road – Al-Nafl St
  Riyadh 13312 – 6288
  SAUDI ARABIA
  Tel: +9661 275 9222
  Fax: +9661 275 7238
  E-mail: import.drug@sfda.gov.sa

Saudi Arabia (Saudi Post) has introduced a new short address to simplify the national address system. The short address comprises of the following:

 

 
The new short address should be added in a separate line, after the recipient information and before the delivery point information as follows: