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*A signature is taken on delivery however we don’t provide a copy of the signature to you as part of the service and it’s not available to view online.
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1 Delivery aim to Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Austria and Luxembourg is 3-4 working days
International Tracked & Signed cannot be sent to PO Boxes or Pack Stations, because a signature cannot be captured. This restriction does not apply when items are sent to Africa or the Middle East
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Customs - Czech Republic
The UK is no longer part of the EU’s single market and customs union and differing rules apply. This means there will be changes to how you send and receive items from abroad and as of 1 July 2021, items imported to the EU with a value of €22 or less became liable for VAT. For more information on how to send goods to EU countries more effectively click here.
You are responsible for checking postal restrictions and prohibitions for your destination.
There are rules about what Royal Mail will carry and each country has their own restrictions which may differ, so it’s important to check both.
Check the status of deliveries around the world on our International Incident Bulletin
Prohibited and Restricted items to Czech Republic
Prohibited items are forbidden and must not be sent.
Restricted items are allowed under certain conditions.
Prohibitions and restrictions vary from country to country and can sometimes apply to items which you may think are ordinary so please check the criteria carefully.
Please ensure that you follow the below guidelines before sending your items to Czech Republic
- Royal Mail prohibits and restricts certain categories of items, please click here to check that your item is allowed within our network.
- Each post around the world must follow the Universal Postal Union (UPU) rules applicable to letter post and postal parcels regarding prohibited and restricted items. To identify whether your item is allowed, please visit Article 19 which contains a detailed list of items that are not admitted in the International mail flow here.
- The destination country also set their own rules around which items are prohibited and/or restricted. To check that your item is allowed to be sent to Czech Republic please visit the UPU Country specific list here and scroll down to Czech Republic.
- You can also use the UPU CDS search function here.
Please note: Specific Country restrictions and changes may be enforced at short notice, so for any clarification please contact the destination country’s trade, postal and customs authorities as appropriate. Royal Mail have no control over UPU and Country specific restrictions regarding prohibited and restricted items and it is your responsibility to check whether your items are allowed.
Clear addressing - general guidelines
General guidelines from the Universal Postal Union on address guidelines. On outward international items, the name of the country of destination must always be printed:
- On the last line of address
- In capital letters
- Preferably in the language of the dispatching country or in an internationally recognized language
For further clarification please refer to the UPU website 
To help facilitate customs clearance, it is recommended that you provide recipient contact details (email address and/or phone number) so that recipients are contactable if any information is missing or incorrect. Contact details should be provided within the electronic customs data or in the case of a CN23 on the physical declaration. To ensure this information is protected do not write these contact details separately on the outside item.
Specific Czech Post address guidelines
Please refer to the list below and for further clarification, please refer to the recommended addressing guidelines on the Czech Post website
- Use Roman letters when writing an address on your item.
- Use clear, legible and sufficiently large letters without corrections. The minimum size of typed or printed letters is 0.25cm.
- Do not use red ink or luminescent pens. Such addresses are not machine readable and your item might be delayed.
- If you are addressing your item by hand, please use uppercase letters for the addressee's name.
- Do not underline the postcode and name of post office in domestic addresses.
- In international addresses, use uppercase letters for the post office and country of destination: do not underline them.
Specific Czech Post packaging guidelines
For further information please refer to the packing advice page on the Czech Post website
- Please ensure that the package is sufficiently secure to prevent any breaking into the item without leaving evident traces on the outer side of the package.
- Use an outer as well as inner package adequate to the nature and weight of the things within your item, manner and duration of relocation of the item and the manner of its handling during transmission and delivery.
- Please ensure that the package is sufficiently. (Solid to provide efficient protection to the things within your item against potential damage due to contact (friction, pressure, collision) with other items. Sufficient to protect the things within your item from damaging should the item fall freely from a height of 120cm and sufficient to protect the things within your item from damage due to weather effects.
- Please ensure that multiple items do not touch each other or the outer package.
- Use a package that is easy and safe to handle.
- You can send an item unpacked but only if it is sufficiently solid and the selected service expressly permits so. This is under the condition that there is no risk that the item could split during normal handling.
- When re-using a package, remove all traces (such as labels) of any previous delivery or other services provided through us from the outer side of the package.
