INDIA (including Andaman and Nicobar Islands) See also India, French and India, Portuguese.
LETTERS
Postage: first oz. 20c.; each additional oz. 15c.
Services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post (2) Insured letters, limit $1,600 (3) Insured boxes, limit $1,600 (4) Printed papers (5) Commercial papers, samples, limit 5 lb.
Customs declarations: (1) Green label and 1C.
(1) Green label and 1C. (The Customs declaration must be securely attached to the outside of the packet); (3) 2C.; (4) Printed matter liable to Customs duty must bear a green Customs label.
Prohibitions: Celluloid and articles wholly or partly made of celluloid such as photograph films, non-inflammable cinemato- graph films are, however, admitted by the letter post provided that the packets bear a label clearly marked in red characters THIS CONTAINS NON-INFLAMMABLE FILMS ONLY. Account and manuscript books, advertising matter (with the exception of trade catalogues and circulars), almanacs, cards in general, labels, photographs, picture books, printed forms, works of art, when sent as merchandise and packets of picture post- cards, are prohibited from importation by printed paper post.
Restrictions apply to the importation of bank-notes.
Registered and insured packets bearing a post-box address must in addition bear the actual address of the addressee.
Insurance: The insurance service to Wana, Tanai, Sarwakai (under the Dehra-Ismail-Khan Post Office), Dattakhel and Spinwam (North Waziristan), Sararogha, Shakardarra, Chorlaki, and Thathi Nasratti (North-West Frontier Province) is tem- porarily suspended.
Customs duty: When the total customs duty payable on a letter or other packet does not exceed 12 annas, the whole of the duty is waived.
PARCELS
Postage:
direct
not over 3 lb. $2.55
7 lb. $4.90
11 lb. $7.30
22 lb.
$11.55
Supplemental services available: Insurance, limit $1,600.
Customs declarations: 1C., 1DN.
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
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