Uruguay

Here is an indication of prohibited items for mailing to Uruguay. For further information, or further clarification please refer to the Uruguay Post Office website

Please refer also 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
• Vegetable products
• Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
• Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
• Medicines or medical products (therapeutic appliances, diagnostic reagents, medical equipment, etc.) unless where they have been prescribed by a patient's attending physician or where they do not have a pharmaceutical equivalent. "Medical products" shall include all products which are ingested or which are applied to the skin, such as medicines, vitamins, homeopathic medicines, nail varnishes, cosmetic paints and dyes, creams and perfumes.
• Mineral products
• Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
• 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
• Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes; polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, "dental waxes" and dental preparations with a basis of plaster
• Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
• Miscellaneous chemical products
• 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
• Base metals and articles of base metal
• Miscellaneous articles of base metal
• 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
• Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment
• Vehicles, other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof
• Aircraft, spacecraft and parts thereof
• Ships, boats and floating structures
• Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
• Miscellaneous manufactured articles
• Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof