Postal_Guide_1929 — Page 96

APPENDIX

IV, Continued.

PARCEL POST

RATES, Continued.

RATES OF POSTAGE ON PARCELS

2 Ib.

3 lb.

SA

3

Not exceeding

$

7 lb. 11 lb. | 22 lb

1st lb. and Each additional lb. up

to 11 lb.

Limit of Insured value (Francs 300-£12)

LIMITS OF SIZE.

Length, Breadth or Depth,

Length & Girth Combined.

e. 18 c. $ c.

$ c.

£

ft. in.

ft. in.

Customs Declaration.

Roumania*

France.

1,60 2.10 2.30 2.50 | 5,15

80

3 6 6 0

JA 2 iC 4

Do.

Germany. 1.75

2.75 4.80

C

120

3 8

6 d

JA 2

10 3

* Parcels somewhat exceeding 2 feet in length are admitted if their other dimensions are small,

ÜBSERVATIONS.

PROHIBITED CONTENTS.

Parcels must be packed in wood, tin, canvas, linen, or similar material, and not mere- ly in paper or card-board.

Contents should be described in detail in French on the Customs Declaration, according to the terms of the Roumanian tariff.

The value and not weight of each kind of article or goods Goods con- should be stated. tained in parcels for Roumania must in all cases be accom- panied by invoices.

Letters; ikons (religious im- ages or pictures,) photographs and reproductions of works re- presenting scenes from foreign history; copper, nickel, silver and gold coins not current in Roumania; (except antique coins); coins intended for pur poses of ornament; soiled "pa- per; cotton waste; coffee pre- pared with colouring matter; arms (unless accompanied by a permit for their transit through Austria, to be obtain- ed from the "Bezirkshaupt manschaft" of the district "in which the Austrian Customs Office of entry is situated), and ammunition; colouring matter and essences usel for the manufacture or adulteration of wine

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or brandy; Saccharine (unless for authorised chemists); patent medicines and pharma- ceutical preparations (except bo authorised institutions); trees and plants of all kinds (unless accompanied by sanitary certificate countersign- ed by a Roumanian Consul); tobacco in any form, cigarette papers, playing cards, salt. and mineral waters, weights and measures of any kind, are only admitted by special per-

mission.

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