# Financial documents (money, banker's drafts, cheques, bonds, securities) — Postal shipping restrictions by item category

For Financial documents (money, banker's drafts, cheques, bonds, securities), carrier is Royal Mail / Parcelforce; restriction type is restricted; scope is prohibited on Parcelforce Worldwide international services; UK services excluded from compensation; conditions is Financial documents exchangeable for money, goods or services cannot be sent on Parcelforce Worldwide international services; they can be sent on UK services but are excluded from compensation, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Item category:** Financial documents (money, banker's drafts, cheques, bonds, securities) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Carrier:** Royal Mail / Parcelforce _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Restriction type:** restricted _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Scope:** prohibited on Parcelforce Worldwide international services; UK services excluded from compensation _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Conditions:** Financial documents exchangeable for money, goods or services cannot be sent on Parcelforce Worldwide international services; they can be sent on UK services but are excluded from compensation. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> any financial documents (money, banker's drafts, Cheques, dividends, binds securities etc.) which can be exchanged themselves or with any other document, for money goods or services cannot be sent on PFWW international services. They can be sent on PFWW UK services but are excluded from compensation.

## Source

- https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/media/w5dlus1c/foia-response_foi2025_00179_appendix-d_rm-dangerous-goods-and-prohibited-and-restricted.pdf

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-08-10.
Part of [Postal shipping restrictions by item category](https://referencesource.org/shipping-restrictions-by-class/).