Overseas Post 139
KOREA (South) (continued)
Prohibitions: See under PARCEL POST.
Address: Correspondence should be addressed in the usual way, but the address should be shown also in Korean characters, if known.
PARCEL POST
Supplemental services available: None.
Customs declaration: One non-adhesive form and despatch note.
Prohibitions: Dresses or dress material, jewellery, and precious metals, gold, silver, platinum, gold bullion; hats, umbrellas, handbags, toilet articles; wine, strong drinks; cakes; fruits; cigarettes, tobacco and smoking accessories; toys, documents and books prejudicial to peace and public order; articles which can be used for espionage; germs; narcotics, opium pipes; counterfeit coins or imitations of money, bank-notes, promissory notes; revolvers, cadnon powder; imitation stamps; ginseng; salt; plants, seeds; scales, machines or machinery for the manufacture of tobacco; live animals, silk worms; virulent and deadly poisons. Ordinary books, newspapers and periodicals are however admitted in any language, including Esperanto.
Restrictions: No parcel may contain items originating in Hong Kong or Japan of a total value exceeding US$10. No parcel containing goods originating in other countries may exceed US$50 in total value.
Articles of clothing and goods intended for the poor, forwarded in Gift, Red-Cross or Relief parcels by charitable organizations of foreign countries will be admitted, Packing and marking: Parcels containing articles of celluloid must be clearly marked in red with the word Celluloid,
Gift parcels: The contents must be limited to essential relief items: namely (a) clothing, medicines or similar articles; or (b) non-perishable foodstuffs. Both the parcel and the customs declaration must be clearly marked Gift Parcel, Unsolicited Gift.
KUWAIT See PERSIAN GULF
LABRADOR Same as CANADA (including Newfoundland)
LABUAN See NORTH BORNEO
LAOS
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters
Postcards
First oz., 40c., 25c.
Each 1 oz.. $1.30
65c.
each oz. after, 25c.
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter post. (2) Regis- tration. (3) Printed papers. (4) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (5) Samples, limit 1 lb. (6) Blind literature.
Customs declarations and language: (1) Green label. French as well as English. Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted); current coin.
Parcels : Service suspended.
LATVIA Same as U.S.S.R.
LEBANON (Republic of)
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards Letters Postcards
First oz., 40c..
each oz. after, 25c.
25c. Each 1 oz., 50c.
25c.
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