226 Overseas Post
TUNISIA (continued)
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface (via Marseille)
Not over
No service
Air mail
2lb. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb. 22lb. $7.00 8.00 9.00 11.50 21.00
Supplemental services available: Insurance, surface only, limit $1,840.
Customs declaration and language: Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note. French as well as English.
Prohibitions: Letters; arms, except sporting weapons admitted under permit; charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted and should be declared as such on the customs declaration forms); coin; cotton seed; grapes; playing cards; saccharin and its products.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Alcoholic liquors; manufactured cotton; plants and bulbs; tobacco (manufactured), cigars and cigarettes.
Invoice: A certified invoice should accompany each commercial parcel. Delivery: Parcels are normally delivered, charges being collected from the addressee. Otherwise addressees are notified of arrival of parcels and are required to arrange for their collection.
TURKEY
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters Postcards
First oz., 40c., 25c. Each oz., $1.30
65c.
each oz. after, 25c.
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter post. (2) Regis- tration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,840. (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,840. (5) Printed papers (see under Invoice below). (6) Com- mercial papers, limit 4 lb. (7) Samples, limit 1 lb. (8) Small Packets. (9) Blind literature.
Customs declarations and language: (1) and (8) Green label. (4) Two non- adhesive forms. Turkish or French as well as English. Calendars, paper patterns and certain fashion publications and photographs are liable to customs duty, and a green customs label must be affixed to all packets containing such articles.
Prohibitions: Coffee in excess of 24 lb. per month to the same person; news- papers, periodicals and other printed matter prohibited by Turkish Government. decree.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Letters or packets containing deeds, shares, warrants and so on, as well as those containing Turkish currency, including cheques or drafts made out in Turkish money; bank-notes; coin, gold, jewellery, platinum, precious stones and silver; plants and parts of plants; saccharin; seeds.
Invoice: A certified invoice should accompany all printed items (books, journals etc.) sent to commercial firms, and a certificate of origin must be sent with printed items other than daily newspapers,
Address: The country of destination must be shown as Turkey without any alternatives or additions such as Asia Minor, Armenia and so on. Obsolete place names such as Constantinopole, Angora, Adalia, Pera, must not be used but the correct names, Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya, Beyoglu should be employed.
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. lllb.
221b. $8.00 9.00 10.50 13.00 24.00 Each lb., $9.00
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