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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

PARCELS TO EUROPE BY THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY VIA DALNY AND VIA PEKING.

Postage &e, payable at Hongkong and Linkungtau a d at the British Post Offices in China;-

Country of Des- tination.

Rate

Postage

of Limit of

Size.

Limit of Insured Value.

Insurance Fee payable for

Number

of

on a

Parcel

not

excceding, Length,

Length

11 lb.

in

Weight.

Bread Girth th, or Depth.

and

combin-

via Dalny.

viá Peking.

300

or

First Fr. Each sub-

! sequent

Cus-

toms

Despat.

Fr. 300 or Declar. ch Note.

ed.

$120.

$120.

tion.

$

C.

Frs.

Frs.

Cents.

Cents.

Tripoli :-

(a) town of Beng-

hasi...

3.50

1,000

1,000

45

(b) town of Tripoli

3.40

1,000

1,000

45

Tunis

3.65

500

500

45

388

30

30

1

30

Turkey:-

(a) Athos,

Bey-

rout, Caiffa, Con-

stantinople, Dar- danelles, Inaboli, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Kerassonde, Or du, Salonica, Sam- БОЦИ, Scio, $- nope, Smyrna, Trébizond, Tri- poli (Syria). (5) Alexandretta, Adrianople, Car- alla, Derteagh, Gallipoli, Lagos, Mersina, Mytilene, Rhodes, Rodosto, Tchesmė, Vathi.. (c) Durazzo, Jan- ina, Prevesa, S. Giovanni de Me.

3.20

3.30

TWO FEET.

FOUR FEET.

3,000

1,250

35

20

3,000

1,250

40

20

1

dua, Santiquar-

ants, Seutari d'Al,

hanie, Valona

3.20

3,000

1,250

(d) Parga, Rizeh,

Sajada ..........

3.40

3,000

1,250

United Kingdom ..

3.50

3,000

1,250

9 39

40

40

40

8 38

25

1

30

MODE OF PACKING:--Parcels must be picked in strong wooden boxes, in metal boxes, or in a leather covering; parcels packed in paper or card board will not be accepted.

FORMALITIES OF POSTING:-Each parcel must be accorapanied by a Despatch Note and by the requisite number of Customs Declaration (ferms of which may be obtained at the Post Office) which the sender himself must fill up. The value to be entered in franes and the weight in kilogrammes. In the case of Insured Parcels the Despatch Note must bear an impression of the seal used to close the parcel and the Customs Declarations must have a similar impression in ink. No compensation can be given unless the pare-l is insured.

CUSTOMS FORMALITIES AT CHINESE TREATY PORTS:-Each parcel originating from a Chinese treaty port must have one of the forms of Customs Declaration duly stamped by the Chinese Custom House in token that duty has been paid on the parcel or that it has been passed "duty free" before the parcel will be accepted.

In the Customs Declaration of parcels for Russia a separate entry must be ade of each kind of article or gods, describing precisely in each case the quality according to the commercial denomina- tion, the quantity according to ordinary trade usage, by number, measurement, and net weight (in grammes), and the value in Russian currency. Neglect of these regulations will lead to the rejection of the parcel by the Russian Customs and its return to the sender.

HONGKONG, 29th August, 1910.

C. MCI. MESSER,

Postmaster General.

SEE HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE,

Prohibitions,

597

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