IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN PARCEL POST
Limitations of service and special conditions
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PROHIBITIONS. letters; used clothing or bedding.
RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of alcoholic liquors; potatoes; pro-
prietary medicines; wireless apparatus.
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PROHIBITIONS: letters, except one for the addressee; cotton and woollen piece goods, such as are ordinarily sold by length or by the piece, imported for trade purposes and not stamped to indicate the length in yards or frac- tions thereof; arms and parts thereof (including toy, dummy or imitation revolvers or pistols and clasp knives of which the blades are more than 3 inches long) and appliances for discharging gas, unless imported by or on behalf of the Government of India; bulbs and plants, unless accompanied by a certificate in the form prescribed by the Indian Authorities; labels or woven goods bearing designs in imitation of paper money; quinine coloured pink; sulphur; and (Cochin and Travancore only), tobacco in any form.
RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of the following articles: potatoes and
certain seeds; wireless apparatus.
ADDRESS: the name of the province in which the place of address is situated
should, as far as possible, be included in the address.
Parcels addressed to post box numbers only, that is, without the actual address
of the addressee, are inadmissible.
DESPATCH PAPERS: separate set for each parcel. Customs declarations should show clearly the material of which goods are made, for example, silk stockings, cotton material, silver-plated cutlery. If books and photographs are enclosed in a parcel with other articles their value should be shown separately. The net weight of the contents of parcels of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, and in the case of cigars and cigarettes, particulars of the brands and the number and net weight of the cigars or cigarettes of each brand, should be clearly stated.
CUSTOMS DUTY is levied in India on the full value of the articles sent, includ
ing postage, insurance, commission, and so on. An addition of 4 per cent, to the declared value is made by the Indian Customs authorities in assess- ing the duty unless such extra charges are shown in detail on the Customs declarations, or unless it is made clear in the declarations that the charges have been included in the declared value. When the total duty on a parcel does not exceed 12 annas, the whole of the duty is waived. COMPENSATION is not payable for damage to porcelain, glassware, and other
exceptionally fragile articles.
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