posting gifts to Finland

[GoingOnAPlane]

Hi,

trying to send some shortbread, cadburys cream eggs and crunchie bars to a friend in Finland who loves them.
I was filling out a customs declaration on parcelmonkey which gave me a good price but it is now saying chocolate is prohibited on their list.

Anyone else had this with sending items abroad recently. What did you do? Parcel is 3kg so through parcelmonkey dpd were delivering for £22 roughly. Parcelforce were charging double.

Have you looked at The British Corner Shop service, I send food from them to Australia, they do all the packing, customs, delivery, all you do is order online and pay

might have a look but bought all the stuff now. But if this is going to be a huge hassle it will be my next port of call.

Can't we send chocolate and sweets/biscuits to Europe any more? My friend sent me lots of stuff and was fine.

The bcs deliver to finland and have all those items in stock

Honestly I do it all manually and dont declare stuff

who do you send parcel with?

what do you put on the customs declaration if sending chocolate?

If shortbread is allowed, just declare that and forget to mention the chocolate.

Next time, use British Corner Shop or a similar outfit and save the hassle.

I just dont write it. Ill write the things that are allowed then leave off other stuff. I just take it to the post office. Honestly ive never thought about it in much detail!

I send things to a pen pal a lot and have the issues with restrictions. I tend to just put candy and don't go into details of if its chocolates etc in the customs form. If shortbread is allowed, like pp I'd just put biscuits or shortbread and leave it at that

This list should tell you what you can and can't send to EU countries, @GoingOnAPlane, it's the one I found on a search.

www.dpd.co.uk/pdf/items-not-accepted-for-eu-export-6april.pdf