Shipping Commodities – What You Need to Know

Advertising brochures/pamphlets
Airline tickets, blank stock (NI)
Airline tickets, issued/validated
Annual reports
Blank forms
Blueprints
Booklets, brochures (non-adv.)
Business cards
Cash letters (NI)
Charts/graphs
Cheques, blank (NI)
Cheques, cancelled (NI)
Cheques, cashier (NI)
Compact disc
Computer printouts
Deeds
Diaries
Diplomatic mail
Documents, general business
Invoices, blank
Invoices, not blank
Magazines, periodicals, journals
Manuals, technical
Manuscripts
Maps
Money orders (NI)
Music, printed or manuscript
Negatives, including x-rays, films
Newspapers
Pamphlets
Passports
Personal mail
Photographs
Photos as part of business reports
Plans/drawings-arch/indust/eng. pur
Playing cards
Price lists
Price tickets for garments
Publication not for public resale
Ship manifest-computer generated
Shipping schedules
Transparencies
Visa applications

Alcoholic beverages
Chemicals, non-hazardous
Coffee
Coffee samples
Cologne and perfume
Communications equipment
Computer software
Cosmetics
Diskettes
Drugs: non-prescription
Drugs: prescription
Fabrics & fabric samples
Foodstuffs
Grain samples
Liquids, non-hazardous
Marble products
Medical samples
Medical/dental supplies & equipment
Military equipment
Perishables
Personal effects
Radar equip.-transmitters/receivers
Seeds
Subs. cont'g sodium/calc. cyclamate
Tea
Telecommunications equipment
Televisions, television equipment
Textile articles
Tobacco
Typewriter ribbons

All other commodities are Non-Document in nature and should be accompanied by a DHL Waybill and an Invoice.