Overseas Post
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GERMAN (SOVIET ZONE) (continued)
Prohibitions: Butane gas lighters; correspondence in secret codes; East German bank notes, currency, etc.; foreign lottery tickets; postcards and envelopes bearing subversive illustrations and material. See also under PARCEL POST, Restrictions: Foreign notes, bills and currency; narcotics; newspapers, periodicals, printed advertising and propaganda material; samples; stamps. See also under PARCEL POST.
Invoices: Invoices, showing the number of the import contract, must be attached to the customs declarations for all dutiable articles other than gifts.
Gifts may be sent in Small packets but not in letter packets. They are subject to the same conditions as those by parcel post (see below).
Address: The full name and address of sender must be indicated on the covers of all letters and packets (see also under PARCEL POST).
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface
Not over 2lb. 3lb.
(via Marseille) Air mail
71b. 11lb. 22lb. $6.00 7.00 9.00 11.50 21.00
No service
Supplemental services available (except for Gifi Parcels): Insurance surface only, limit $1,840.
Customs declaration : Two non-adhesive form and despatch note. (a separate set for cach parcel).
Prohibitions: Arms, military materials; bees and used hives.
Restrictions : Animal products; fruits; narcotics; plant and parts of plants; seeds; vaccines and serums; used clothing and footwear. A certificate of disinfec- tion authorised by a Medical Officer of Health must be enclosed with each parcel containing used clothing or footwear. The certificate must show particulars of the sender and the addressee and an exact description of the disinfected articles (size and colour) and the method of disinfection and the type of disinfectant used. The outer wrapping of the parcel and the customs declaration form should be marked Certificat dé desinfection est inséré.
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.
Invoices: Invoices, showing the number of the import contract, must be attached to the despatch notes for all commercial 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 1 lb. coffee or coffee products, 1 lb. cocoa or cocoa products, 10 oz. chocolate or chocolate products, 11 oz. tobacco goods may be sent and the total weight of these goods included in any one parcel should not exceed 850 grammes (approx. 14 lb.). Medicines may not be included.
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 known, 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.