Advance Baggage Service Unacceptable Items for Carriage
Advance Baggage Service will not ship any item that is prohibited by any law, regulation, state, or local government. Below is a general list of materials that are strictly prohibited.
Prohibited Items
Live or dead animals
Prescription drugs
Illegal narcotic substances
Firearms (including parts) and Ammunition
Fake/dummy/game/toy weapons
Paint ball guns, BB guns, antique weapons, swords, knives, etc
Items that could be used as weapons.
Human remains (including ashes)
Furs and skins (untreated)
Indecent goods pornography
Any noxious substance
Plants/Seeds
Any unsolicited indecent item
Foodstuff
Perishable goods
Any inadequately packaged item
Valuable Items
Bullion
Cash or currency
Payment cards, traveler cheques, etc.
Jewelry
Precious metals & stones
Works of Art
Antiques
Items of a fragile nature
Packages that are wet, leaking or emit any odor of any kind
Dangerous Goods
All items, irrespective of packaging, listed in the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations are not to be sent by courier. These include:
Acid
Adhesive products (containing flammable liquid)
Aerosol cans (e.g. Hair spray)
Alarm devices (gas or battery powered)
Alcohol (more than 5 liters)
Alcohol (more than 70% by volume)
Alkaline
Aluminum powder
Ammonial products
Ammunition
Anti-freeze
Appliances (containing batteries)
Asbestos
Batteries (contained in any appliance)
Batteries (made from lithium)
Batteries (car or wet cell)
Battery fluid
Blasting caps
Bleach
Brake fluid
Bullets
Butane
Camphor
Caps for starting guns
Caps for toy guns
Caustic soda
Charcoal
Chemicals
Chlorates
Chlorine
Christmas crackers
Cigarette lighters
Corrosives (e.g. nail polish)
Deodorant (aerosols)
Disinfectants
Drugs (unless in prescription quantities)
Dyes
Explosives
Electronic items (containing batteries)
Essential oils (e.g. Eucalyptus, tea tree)
Fertilizers
Fire extinguishers
Fire lighters
Firearms
Fireworks (e.g. Skyrockets, sparklers, crackers)
Flammable liquids and flammable solids (e.g. perfume)
Flares
Flint lighters
Gas (e.g. Propane, butane, hydrogen, helium)
Gas cylinders (e.g. Camping gas cylinders ? full or empty)
Glue (e.g. Flammable, quick drying)
Grenades
Hair coloring/bleaches
Hairspray (aerosol)
Highly magnetic, polymerizable goods
Igniters
Insecticides
Kerosene
Laundry detergents
Lighter fluid
Liquid nitrogen
Lithium batteries
Magnetic material
Magnets
Matches
Mercury
Mobile phones (unless battery separately wrapped)
Motor fuels
Nail polish
Nail polish remover
Narcotics
Oven cleaners (which include caustic soda)
Oxidizing substances and organic peroxides (e.g. hair dye)
Oxygen cylinders
Paint (oil based)
Party poppers
Perfume
Perfumery products
Peroxides
Petrol
Phosphorus
Plastic solvent
Poisons (e.g. Cyanide, lead, arsenic)
Propane
Radioactive materials
Shock absorbers (gas or compressed air)
Signals, distress
Signals, smoke
Sodium
Solvents
Sparklers
Sulphuric acid
Swimming pool chemicals
Tea tree oil
Textile dyes
Theatrical flares
Thermometers (mercury)
Toner (e.g. Photocopier)
Toxic (poisonous) and infectious substances.
Toy caps
Toys (containing batteries)
Turpentine
Varnish (e.g. Removers, thinners)
Weed killers
Zinc powder
Prohibited Items
Valuable Items
Dangerous Goods
All items, irrespective of packaging, listed in the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations are not to be sent by courier. These include: