Special shipments are mail items containing information related to state secrets, other legally protected information and items, precious metals and precious stones, as well as products made from them, banknotes of the Republic of Belarus, foreign currency, sent by a legal entity or individual entrepreneur.
Special shipments are divided into the following types: packages, parcels, and packages.
Package is a special shipment with an attachment of documents and other tangible media.
Package is a special shipment with a commodity attachment, as well as with an attachment of indivisible documents, the size and/or weight of which exceeds the maximum allowed for packages.
Packaging is a special shipment with a commodity attachment, the size and/or weight of which exceeds the maximum allowed for parcels.
Special shipments are divided into secret and unclassified.
Secretspecial shipments include packages, parcels, packages marked with a security label of "Special importance", "Top secret" or "Secret".
Unclassifiedspecial shipments include packages, parcels, packages marked "Government", "For official use", "Confidential", "Official", "Valuable", "Accompanying".
Special items are accepted for shipment with declared value and without declared value.
The amount of the declared value of a special shipment is indicated by the sender in the register for receiving special shipments (hereinafter referred to as the register) in accordance with the actual value of the forwarded attachment.