Aerosols
Alcohol
Ammunition (excluding lead pellets and other airgun and airsoft projectiles)
Asbestos
Balance Boards (including Hoverboards, electric scooters, electric bicycles and all battery powered vehicles and equipment (UN3171))
Balloons filled with non-flammable gases
Batteries not connected to or posted with the device it is intended to power
Biological substances (Category B) (diagnostic specimens including urine, faeces, livestock and equine semen collection and animal remains)
Christmas crackers - see Explosives for cracker snaps when not part of a made-up cracker
Clinical and medical waste (e.g. contaminated dressings, bandages and needles)
Controlled drugs and narcotics (such as cannabis, cocaine, heroin, LSD, opium and amyl nitrate)
Corrosives (including aluminium chloride, caustic soda, corrosive cleaning fluid, dyes, acids, corrosive paint and rust removers, mercury and gallium metal)
Counterfeit currency, bank notes and postage stamps (except copies of old denominations, which are now obsolete and worthless except for collectable value and cannot be passed as tender)
DNA samples (limited to saliva swabs and samples)
Dry ice and liquid Nitrogen (For example Dry ice and liquid Nitrogen UN1845 when used as a coolant for UN3373 or for other perishable items.)
Electronic cigarettes
Electronic devices sent with or connected to lithium batteries (including mobile phones, digital cameras, etc).
Environmentally hazardous substances
Environmental waste (including used batteries and used engine oil)
Explosives (including fireworks, flares, blasting caps, party poppers, Cracker snaps)
Flammable liquids (including petroleum, lighter fluid, certain adhesives, solvent-based paints, wood varnish, enamels, acetone and all nail varnish removers also see; Alcoholic beverages, Perfumes and aftershaves and Nail varnish)
Flammable solids (including magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium, zinc powder, sparklers and fire lighters)
Frozen water (including packs of ice)
Gases, including flammable, non-flammable, toxic and compressed gases (including new, used and empty gas cylinders, ethane, butane, refills for lighters, fire extinguishers and scuba tanks, life jackets, nitrogen dioxide and carbon dioxide canisters including culinary foaming devices & soda stream)
Goods made in foreign prisons (except those imported for a non-commercial purpose, of a kind not manufactured in the UK, or those in transit)
Guns for sporting use
Human or animal ashes
Infectious substances and pathogens (UN2814 or UN2900)
Lighters and refills containing flammable liquid or gas (including used butane, petrol cigar and cigarette lighters)
Lighters - empty, new or unused
Liquids not classified as dangerous goods
Live creatures, insects and invertebrates
Lottery tickets
Magnetised material
Matches (including safety matches and windproof matches)
Nail varnish, polish or gel (solvent and water-based)
Obscene publications and unlawful indecent images
Oxidising materials or organic peroxides (including disinfectants, nitrates and hair dyes or colourants containing peroxide)
Paints, wood varnishes and enamels
Patient Specimens
Perfumes and aftershaves (including: Reed diffusers; body sprays; room fragrance sprays (non-Aerosols only); essential oils; eau de parfum and eau de toilette but excluding non-flammable perfumed creams, gels oils or lotions)
Perishable items (including flowers, fresh fruit, vegetables and frozen or chilled foodstuffs)
Pesticides (e.g. weed killer and any chemical used to kill pests and insects including fly sprays)
Poisons, toxic liquids, solids and gases (including substances that are liable to cause death or injury if swallowed or inhaled or by skin contact, including arsenic, cyanide, fluorine, rat poison)
Prescription medicines and drugs sent for scientific or medical purposes
Radioactive materials and samples
Sharp objects (including knives, kitchen utensils and gardening tools)
Tickets and related advertisements for illegal lotteries
Vaccines
Waste, dirt, filth or refuse (including household waste)
Weapons (including Section 5 firearms, CS gas and pepper sprays, flick knives and other knives that are banned under UK laws, tasers and stun guns)