No sending Catholic things into Germany?

[Marvin_the_Martian]

If you look further down the link that @Jackmannii shared you will see that the “Articles bearing political or religious notations on the address side” restriction is only for USPS, not UPS or FedEx. I’m sure the OP’s problem is a USPS worker mis-interpreting their internal rule.

Here is an old thread in a similar vein (TL;DR - the USPS prohibition against loose playing cards is based on obsolete German law which expired in 1981):

Why can't I mail playing cards to Germany?

I was calculating postage for a letter to Germany using the USPS’s web site, and I was curious what I was specifically prohibited from mailing. This page (from the USPS) lists, among other reasonable things like radioactive materials and human remains: A Google search revealed a large Internet community of playing card collectors and traders, and some info on historic German playing card tax stamps. Are playing cards regulated for tax reasons in Germany? Why couldn’t I mail the ace of spade…