POLAND (continued)
Overseas Post 195
Customs declarations and language: (1) and (6) Green label and two non- adhesive forms. Polish or French as well as English.
Prohibitions: As for PARCEL POST.
Restrictions: As for PARCEL POST.
Customs duty: All articles (including those sent as gifts) are liable to customs duty. Electrical deaf-aids and surgical belts, hose, etc., required for the personal use of the addressee or a member of his family are, however, admitted free of duty if the addressee holds a permit issued by the Polish health authorities. Address: The place name Danzig should not be used; the correct form of address for this place is Gdansk, and this should be employed.
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface
Not over
(via Marseille) Air mail
3lb. 7lb. Ilb. 221b.
216. $7.00 8.00 9.50 11.50 22.00 Each lb., $9.00
Supplemental services available: Insurance, air and surface, limit $1,840.
Customs declaration : Three non-adhesive forms and despatch note (a separate set for each parcel).
Prohibitions : Charged butane gas lighters and refills, uncharged lighters are admitted. Labels, empty receptacles and so on having the names of non-Polish firms sent without goods; radio-active matter. No documents, printed matter, books, periodicals, sketches, photographs, photographic films (negatives or paper), gramophone recordings and so on, may be sent by post if they contain matter prejudical to Polish laws and customs.
Restrictions: Arms and explosives; medicines, narcotics, serums, and vaccines ; fruits, plants, parts of plants and seeds; meat and other animal products; monetary documents; currency, precious metals and stones. Commercial parcels are not in general, admitted unless an import licence has been obtained from the appropriate Polish authority.
Customs duty : All articles (including those sent in Gift parcels) are liable to customs duty. Electrical deaf-aids and surgical belts, hose, etc., required for the personal use of the addressee or a member of his family are, however, admitted free of duty if the addressee holds a permit issued by the Polish health authorities. Gift parcels for private persons are admitted generally without import restrictions providing they contain reasonable quantities only of articles required for the personal use of the addressee or his family; customs duties are payable on most articles.
Gift parcels may not be sent to associations, organizations, institutions and so on without the permission of the Polish Minister of Foreign Trade.
Address: The place name Danzig should not be used; the correct form of address for this place is Gdansk, and this should be employed.
PORTUGAL
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
First oz., 40c., 25c.
each oz. after, 25c.
65c.
Letters Postcards Letters Each oz., $1.30 Postcards
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post (green label packets must be conspicuously marked En Douane in addition to bearing a green label). (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,840. (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,840. (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (7) Samples, limit 1 lb. (8) Blind literature. Customs declarations and language: (1) Green label and one non-adhesive form. (4) One non-adhesive form. Portuguese or French as well as English.