Postal_Guide_1939 — Page 236

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IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN PARCEL POST

Limitations of service and special conditions

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PROHIBITIONS: letters; tobacco; unobliterated postage and other stamps,

bonds and orders payable to bearer, except in insured parcels. RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of: arms; medicines; plants;

saccharine and similar substances.

INVOICE an invoice certified by a Portuguese consul should accompany each consignment of goods over 550 escudos (about $80) in value sent from a district in which a Portuguese consular representative resides. PACKING: celluloid (seasoned), films and other articles made of celluloid must

be packed in soldered tin boxes enclosed in strong wooden boxes.

PROHIBITIONS: letters (except one for the addressee).

PROHIBITIONS: letters; articles of gold or silver; military weapons and air- guns; playing cards; potatoes; rosaries, relics and similar articles; tobacco. RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of: Spanish bank-notes; jewels and

precious stones; pharmaceutical preparations; plants and parts of plants. ADDRESS: the address on the parcel and despatch note must include the name

of one of the following places:

Alaro.

Felanitx, Ibiza.

Palma de Mallorca. Pollenza,

Santa Maria.

Selva,

Alayor.

Alcudia.

Inca.

Sineu.

Andraitx.

Lluchmayor.

Soller.

Arta.

Mahon.

San Francisco Xavier.

Ciudadela.

Manacor,

Porreras.

Puebla.

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Santa Margarita.

CUSTOMS DECLARATIONS must bear the Post Office serial number of the parcel.