Postal_Guide_1939 — Page 294

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN PARCEL POST

Limitations of service and special conditions

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PROHIBITIONS: letters.

INVOICE: a Consular invoice is required for every parcel or consignment of parcels posted at the same time by one sender to one addressee. The invoice may be enclosed in a parcel or sent separately to the addressee. A note, stating which course is followed, should be made on the Customs declaration.

PACKING: parcels of which the contents are liable to be affected by damp

should be enclosed in waterproof covers.

COMPENSATION is not payable.

PROHIBITIONS: letters;

letters; arms and parts of arms and saccharine and its products, except under permit.

SEALING parcels should be sealed with a distinctive device.

INVOICE: parcels containing merchandise should be accompanied by a copy of

the invoice dated and signed by the sender.

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PROHIBITIONS: letters; bottles, corks, labels, and so on, bearing the marks of non-Lithuanian firms and not sent with the goods to which they relate; playing cards.

RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of: Firearms and airguns; medicines;

seeds of clover and other fodder; woollen fabrics.

PACKING parcels sent via Germany must be very strongly packed and must be

sealed.

PROHIBITIONS: Letters.

RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of: arms; boots and shoes; butter; cut flowers; fresh fruit; game; hosiery, wholly or partly of silk; meat; pota- toes; saccharine and similar substances; sugar; wine and similar beverages.

C.O.D.

PROHIBITIONS: letters; arms, except under permit.