114 Overseas Post
CYPRUS (continued)
Preferential Tariffs apply under certain conditions to British goods. Enquiries should be addressed to Commerce and Industry Department.
Compensation is not payable for damage to parcels containing liquids, fragile articles or perishable goods if the damage occurs in the Italian service.
CYRENAICA
See LIBYA
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters
First oz., 40c.,
each oz. after, 25c.
25c.
Each oz., $1.30
Postcards
65c.
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter post (except insured letters) and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,840. (4) Printed papers. (5) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (6) Samples, limit 1 lb. (7) Small Packets. (8) Blind literature.
Customs declarations: (1) and (7) Green label.
Prohibitions: Butane gas lighters and refills; German coin and paper money. Restrictions apply to the importation of: Czechoslovak bank-notes and coin; medicines; plants and parts of plants; platinum, gold and silver; postage stamps; serums and vaccines; tobacco; valuable documents. No other goods other than those sent as gifts (which are subject to the same conditions as gifts sent by parcel post) may be sent to private persons.
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface (via Marseille)
Air mail
Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb. 221b.
$7.50 8.50 10.00 12.50 23.00 Each 1 lb., $9.50
Supplemental services available: Insurance, air and surface, limit $1,840.
Customs declaration: Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note.
Prohibitions: Letters: butane gas lighters and refills; German coin and paper money, goods (other than medicines) in sealed or hermetically closed tins; meat preservatives.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Arms and parts of arms; bees, beeswax and honey; colours containing lead and copper; cosmetics; Czechoslovak bank- notes and coin; dried and artificially coloured fruit; meat and lard; medicines; plants and parts of plants; platinum, gold and silver; postage stamps; potatoes; serums and vaccines; tobacco in any form except for personal use; valuable documents; wireless apparatus. No parcels other than gift parcels and parcels containing printed matter only, may be sent to private persons.
Printed Matter: Books, periodicals etc.-must be sent in parcels containing printed matter only, and not included in parcels containing other items.
Gift parcels : Gift parcels may be sent only by private persons and not by commercial undertakings. Gift parcels destined for the personal use of the addressee or members of his family living with him are admitted without an import licence providing they contain articles needed for private use. Reduced customs charges will be levied on the first three parcels received by the addressee in any one year providing the parcels contain certain items only (mostly food, tobacco and clothing) within certain limits of quantity, weight and value.
Worn clothing, linen and footwear and used articles required for personal use are admitted free of customs duty, but not more than three parcels containing such items may be sent to the same addressee in one year. A certificate of disinfection issued by a competent authority such as a Medical Officer or Health, a Sanitary Inspector, a private business house or a firm of dry cleaners must