MaltaPost would like to advise the general public that due to the recent terrorist threats to air transportation, the following dangerous goods are prohibited to be mailed and transported by all airline carriers internationally.
Items with an The Air Transport Association (IATA) Dangerous Goods classification include explosives such as ammunition, fireworks, igniters, flares and toy caps, gases such as aerosol cans, cigarette lighters, full or empty camping gas cylinders, fire extinguishers and compressed oxygen, flammable liquids and solids such as paint, alcohol, perfume, petrol, kerosene, turpentine, solvents, cleaning fluids, varnish, paint & varnish remover, matches and zirconium powder, oxidizing substances and organic peroxides such as hair dye, bleaching agents, disinfections fiberglass repair kits, permanganate and peroxides, toxic poison and infectious substances such as anti-knock motor fuel additive, arsenic, rat poison, mustard gas, tear gas devices, bacteria, blood and its components, chemical & medical waste, excreta, used surgical blades & needles, used syringes, viruses and biological products, radioactive material like plutonium and radium, corrosives such as mercury – including thermometers, batteries, wet cell such as car batteries, most rust removers or preventers and nitric acids and other goods that are highly magnetic, polymerizable or otherwise unsuitable for carriage like asbestos, dry ice, first aid kits, wet-cell batteries and magnets or fridge magnets in quantities.