136 Overseas Post
JAMAICA
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PARCEL POST
Supplemental services available:
Insurance, surface only, limit $1,600.
Customs declaration : One adhesive form.
Prohibitions: Letters, except one for the addressee; and, except under permit, bees and appliances for bee-keeping; cotton and parts of cotton plants (cotton goods are admitted).
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Serums and vaccines, cordage, cable, twine and rope.
The importation of certain articles is subject to the production of an import licence. Import licences are not however required for bona fide gift parcels of a purely personal character not exceeding 38 Jamaican dollars in value.
JAPAN (Islands of Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Hokkaido only)
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters
Postcards
First oz., 40c., each oz. after, 25c.
25c. Each / oz., 50c.
25c.
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, air and surface, limit $1,600. (4) Insured boxes, air and surface, 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) and (8) Green label and one non-adhesive form. (4) One non-adhesive form.
Restrictions: The addressee will be required to furnish an import licence for letters, printed papers, samples and Small Packets containing articles sent as merchandise. Restrictions also apply to the importation of coin, bank-notes, securities payable to bearer, gold bullion and articles manufactured mainly of gold; certain meats and meat products; plants and fruit; tobacco. Address: Correspondence should be addressed in the usual way. If addressed in Russian, Chinese, Korean or Japanese, it must bear an interlined translation in English of the post town. island and country of destination.
PARCEL POST
Supplemental services available: Insurance, surface only, limit $1,600, Customs declaration: One non-adhesive form and despatch note. One set of despatch papers is sufficient for a consignment of any number of ordinary parcels posted at the same time by the same sender to the same addressee. Such parcels must be clearly marked One of a batch of ... parcels.
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Prohibitions: Letters; pistols and revolvers; straw packing; seditious or treason- able matter against any government.
Restrictions apply to the importation of coin, bank-notes, cheques, money orders, letters of credit and other negotiable instruments; gold bullion and articles manu- factured mainly of gold; certain meats and meat products; plants and fruit; tobacco; firearms and other lethal weapons.
Packing and marking: Parcels containing articles of celluloid must be clearly marked in red with the word Celluloid.
Import licence: The importation of parcels containing merchandise is subject to the production of an import licence by the addressee. A licence is not, however, required for relief parcels containing limited quantities of foodstuffs, medicines, clothes and clothing materials sent to charitable institutions such as orphanages and old people's homes. In addition gift parcels containing clothing, foodstuffs, household articles, etc. sent to individuals for their personal use and not for trade purposes; samples not exceeding 180,000 yen in value sent for the purpose of soliciting business; and cultural materials are also admitted without an import licence.
Air Parcels : Parcels forwarded by air to Japan should be endorsed "For internal air conveyance" or "NOT for internal air conveyance", the charge for such service is about HK 70 cents per Kilo.