132 Overseas Post
GERMAN (SOVIET ZONE) (continued)
Restrictions: Animal products; fruits: narcotics; plant and parts of plants: seeds; vaccines and serums.
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 lb. coffee or coffee products, 1 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. 13 lb.). Medicines may not be included unless they are accompanied by a certificate issued by a doctor practising in Eastern Germany. Goods are subject to payment in Germany of customs duty at current rates.
Goods in hermetically sealed containers, anti-democratic literature, documents, written or printed notes, 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 konwn, 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.
GHANA (including Ashanti & Northern Territories) Formerly GOLD COAST COLONY) and TOGO (British Sphere)
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters
First oz., 20c., 15c.
each oz. after, 15c.
Each oz.. $1.30
Postcards
65c.
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post, (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $960. (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $960. (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 5 lb. (7) Samples, limit 5 lb. (8) Small Packets. (9) Blind literature.
Customs declarations: (1) and (8) Green label. (4) One non-adhesive form.
Prohibitions : Bank-notes and currency notes, unless sent by a bank to a bank at Acera or Sekondi; coin, but coin of gold or silver declared to be for purposes of ornament is admitted if not exceeding H.K.$80 in value.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Plants and seeds; saccharin and similar substances.
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface
Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb. 22lb.
$7.00 7.50 9.50 13.00 23.00
Air mail Each lb., $10.00
Supplemental services available: Insurance, surface only, limit $960.
Customs declaration : One adhesive form.