Send a gift box to Italy
What you can and can't put in the box, how customs works on the way in, and the rounds that include Italy right now.
Routes to Italy
Customs into Italy
From the EU: none · From the United Kingdom or Ukraine: a declaration
We prepare the declaration with your label, marked as a gift with its value. Italy gives relief on gifts between private people worth up to €45.
What not to put in the box
On every route
- Food and drink
- Liquids
- Loose lithium batteries and power banks
- Aerosols and spray cans
- Perfume, aftershave and nail polish (flammable)
- Alcoholic drinks
- Tobacco and e-cigarettes
- Lighters, matches and fireworks
- Cash, banknotes and jewellery
- Weapons, ammunition and replicas
- Medicines
Into Italy
- Meat and dairy products from outside the EU
- Plants, fruit and seeds from outside the EU without a plant health certificate
- Protected animal and plant species (CITES)
- Counterfeit goods
About Italy
- Capital Rome
- Speaks Italian
How gifts are given here
On the night before 6 January, La Befana, a kind old witch on a broomstick, fills children's stockings. The cheeky ones find a lump of sugar "coal".
Say thank you
Grazie
say it GRAHT-see-eh
Write it on the card in your box.
Open rounds that include Italy
Each round names the countries it is open to. The ring decides where your box goes.
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0 of 20 spots takenStickers worth sharing
Closes Nov 30
Parcel S · up to 500 g
Gift you'd be glad to get yourself
Look inside
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11 of 20 spots takenA book you've finished
Closes Dec 30
Parcel S · up to 500 g
Gift about €12
Look inside
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14 of 20 spots takenSomething from your city
Closes Dec 30
Parcel S · up to 500 g
Gift about €15
Look inside
Boxes that arrived in Italy
See the gallery
Somebody in Italy is waiting for a parcel.
See open roundsRules last checked 19 Oct 2026. The national post and customs authority have the final word. Sources: adm.gov.it, poste.it, food.ec.europa.eu, food.ec.europa.eu.