Postal_Guide_1929 — Page 104

156

PLACE OF DESTINATION.

ROUTE.

Via.

Straits Settlements (Cocos

Islands, Christmas Islands,

Labuan, Malacca, Penang,. Direct. Province Wellesley and

Singapore)

€9

APPENDIX

IV, Continued.

PARCEL POST

RATES, Continued.

RATES OF POSTAGE ON PARCELS

2 lb.

P

Not exceeding

31.

7 lb. 11 lb. 22 lb.

c. $

韻

5

C.

ૐ

C.

3

*

0 80 1.50 | 2.20 | 4.20

**

C.

#

1st lb. and Each

additional Ih. up

to 11 lb.

Limit of Insured value (Francs 300-£12)

LIMITS OF SIZE.

Length, Breadth or Depth.

Length & Girth Combined.

ft. in. ft. in.

Customs Declaration.

120

3 6

6 0

A 2

Sweden

London.

1.60 2.60 3.75 | 6.30

120

3 6 6 0

JA 2 C. 1

Do.

Germany.

1.80

3.00 5.05

120

3 6 6 0

C

OR CO

Do.

France. 1.65 2.35 2.55 2.75 5.40

80

3 6 6 0

A 2 10 2

OBSERVATIONS,

PROHIBITED CONTENTS.

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Watches or articles of gold and silver must be insured,

Communication with the Co- cos Islands, where there is no Post Office, is irregular and in- frequent.

Every parcel exceeding $50 in value must be insured.

Letters, spirits and bhang, firearms, parts of firearms and ammunition, except under per- mit; and, unless addressed to the Principal Medical Officer, Straits Settlements, opium, morphias, morphine, cocaine, hypodermic syringes and other instruments or parts of instru- ments for hypodermic injec tion, including hypodermic needles.

Drugs should be fully dez- cribed in the Customs Declara- tion; otherwise they are liable to be detained for examina- tion.

Parcels exceeding one Kilo- gramme (2 lb.) in weight are not delivered, except in Stock- holm, but must be claimed at a Post Office.

to

or

Letters; manufactured gold and silver not of a certain de- gree of fineness; some pharma- ceutical products and arsenic, unless addressed

a State Pharmacy or to specially au- thorised persons; articles made abroad which bear the name of a place, property, manufactory or tradesman in Sweden, any marking in Swedish to ex- plain the nature of the goods inust bear the word import or the name and domicile of the foreign manufacturer, applied conspicuously and indelibly. Goods which do not comply with this regulation are confis- cated. Shaving brushes manu- factured in Japan.