GERMANY (SOVIET ZONE and Eastern Sector of Berlin)
LETTER POST
Overseas Post 115
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters
First oz., 40c., each oz. after. 25c.
Postcards
25c.
Each oz., $1.30
65c.
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter post (except insured letters) and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,600. (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,600. (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (7) Samples, limit 1 lb. (8) Small Packets. (9) Blind literature,
Customs declarations: (1) Green label. (4) One non-adhesive form. (8) Green label and one non-adhesive form.
Prohibitions See under PARCEL POST.
Restrictions: Stamps; Newspapers and periodicals. Monetary transactions may be conducted only through a bank, under authority granted by the Government. Insured letters and boxes must be addressed to the Deutsche Notenbank, Französische Strasse 44/45, Berlin. W.8. Soviet Sector.
Envelopes of letters and so on must be without lining.
Gifts may be sent in Small Packers but not in letter packets. They are subject to the same conditions as those by parcel post (see below).
Address: The full name and address of sender must be indicated on the covers of all letters and packets (see also under PARCEL POST).
PARCEL POST
Supplemental services available (except for Gift Parcels); Insurance surface only, limit $1,600.
Customs declaration : One non-adhesive form and despatch note.
Prohibitions: Arms, military materials, photographic films or microfilms (less than 10 x 7.5 mm).
Restrictions apply to the importation of plants and parts of plants; rabbits. Import Licences must be obtained in advance by the addressees from the Ministry of Commerce for all goods other than those included in gift parcels.
Gift Parcels : Gift parcels may be sent only by private persons and not by commercial undertakings or by Welfare Organizations or workers. The contents must be limited to essential relief items for the use of a private person or members of his family. No addressee may receive more than one gift parcel a month. Not more than 4 lb. coffee or coffee products, lb. cocoa or cocoa products, 10 oz. chocolate or chocolate products, 14 oz. tobacco goods may be sent and the total weight of these goods included in any one parcel should not exceed 850 grammes (approx. 14 lb.). Medicines may not be included unless they are accompanied by a certificate issued by a doctor practising in Eastern Germany. All goods, with the exception of genuinely worn clothing, are subject to payment in Germany of customs duty at current rates.
Goods in hermetically sealed containers, books, documents, written or printed notes, printed matter used as packing material, postage stamps, recordings on discs, wire or tape, films, photographic plates and paper, maps and toys of a military character may not be included. Customs declarations and outer wrappings of parcels should be marked by the side of the address :-
"GESCHENKSENDUNG, KEINE HANDELSWARE”.
Packing: All parcels must be strongly packed.
Address: The relative Postal District (postleitgebiet) number, if known, should appear in the address of all parcels (and of other postal packets of any kind) preferably indicated within a circle at the left-hand side of the name of the place
of destination, for example, 10a
Dresden.
Parcels and so on, for Eastern Berlin should include in the address the indication Soviet Sector.