Prohibited Items

1. Never, under any circumstances

Asking for these, or agreeing to carry them, ends the account immediately.

• Drugs and narcotics of any kind, including substances legal in one country and not the other
• Weapons, ammunition, explosives, their parts, replicas, or components
• Stolen goods, or anything you cannot show you obtained lawfully
• Counterfeit goods — fake brands, pirated media, forged documents
• Human remains, body parts, biological samples
• Protected wildlife and derived products — ivory, coral, reptile skins, and anything covered by CITES
• Cultural artefacts and antiquities that may not lawfully leave a country
• Radioactive, toxic, corrosive or infectious material
• Anything illegal to possess, export or import at either end of the route
• Sealed packages whose contents you have not personally seen
• Anything bound for a closed destination — see section 2

2. Routes and destinations we cannot serve

Most of this page is about what an item is. This section is about where it is going, and it is the part that catches people who have done nothing they would recognise as wrong.

Closed entirely

No delivery may be arranged to, from or through these places:

• North Korea
• Iran
• Syria
• Cuba
• Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, and other areas of Ukraine outside the control of the Ukrainian government

Restricted, not closed

Russia and Belarus are the widest example. Flying there is lawful and the airports appear in our search, but a long list of goods may not be exported to them from the EU, the United Kingdom or the United States: electronics, luxury goods above a value threshold, vehicle and aviation parts, industrial equipment.

Note where the offence happens. A traveler who carries a laptop as a favour may be breaking the law of the country they left, not the one they arrived in — and may not find out until much later.

Controlled by destination

Some ordinary goods become restricted the moment a particular country is the destination. Do not carry these without checking:

• Drone, aircraft and vehicle components
• Night vision, thermal imaging and optical sights
• Advanced semiconductors, and computing hardware sold for machine learning
• Encryption hardware and security equipment
• Anything with a plausible military use, however ordinary it looks

The shop that sold the item cannot tell you whether it may leave the country. The export control authority of the departure country can, and most of them publish a searchable list. If you cannot get a clear answer before the flight, decline the delivery. Sanctions lists also change frequently, sometimes overnight — this page describes the position on the date shown above and may already be out of date.

3. Restricted by airlines

These are not necessarily illegal, but airlines limit or forbid them and the rules differ between carriers. Check with the airline before agreeing.

• Lithium batteries and power banks — usually cabin only, never in the hold, with limits on capacity. Loose batteries are frequently refused outright.
• Liquids over 100 ml in the cabin, including cosmetics and perfume
• Aerosols, lighters, matches, flammable liquids
• Magnets, dry ice, compressed gas cylinders
• Electronic devices subject to recall
• Live animals, plants, seeds and soil
• Fresh food, meat and dairy — often forbidden entirely between certain countries

Many airlines also restrict carrying items on behalf of another person, regardless of what the item is. That is between you and your airline; GetFlyPass cannot waive it.

4. Allowed, but watch customs

Ordinary goods become a problem when their value exceeds the traveler allowance of the destination country, or when quantity makes them look commercial rather than personal.

• Electronics — phones, laptops, cameras, especially sealed and in quantity
• Jewellery, watches, precious metals
• Alcohol and tobacco — strict per-person allowances almost everywhere
• Medication — prescription drugs may require documentation, and some common medicines are controlled substances in other countries
• Large amounts of cash — declaration thresholds apply, commonly around €10,000 in the EU
• Multiples of the same new item — five identical phones read as import, not as a gift

Agree in writing, before the trip, who pays any duty. Keep the receipt. A traveler who is stopped without a receipt for a new sealed device is in a much worse position than one who can show what it cost and who it is for.

5. Use judgement

Treat these as warning signs, whichever side of the arrangement you are on:

• The other person will not say precisely what the item is
• The reward is far higher than the effort justifies
• You are asked to hand the item to a third person you have never spoken to
• You are asked to move the conversation off GetFlyPass immediately
• You are asked to declare something as a gift when it is not
• The item is to be collected from a locker, a stranger, or an unexplained address
• The item's real destination turns out to be a country further on, not the one you are flying to

None of these is proof of anything. All of them are reasons to ask more questions, and to decline if the answers are unconvincing. You are never obliged to complete a delivery you have become uncomfortable with.

6. What happens if you break this

Requesting or agreeing to carry anything in section 1, or to serve a closed destination in section 2, ends the account permanently, on the first occurrence, without warning. Where we are required to, or where there is a credible risk of serious harm, we report it to the authorities.

Beyond the platform: the person carrying the item is the person who answers to customs and to the police. GetFlyPass cannot represent you, cannot intervene at a border and cannot cover any fine or penalty.

If someone asks you to carry something from this page, use the report button on their profile or in the conversation. Reports are read.