Postal_Guide_1939 — Page 360

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN PARCEL POST

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Limitations of service and special conditions

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PROHIBITIONS: letters; arms (except sporting guns admitted under permit)

except for the Government; cigarette papers.

RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of foodstuffs; patent medicines;

saccharine and similar substances.

CUSTOMS DECLARATIONS should show the nature of contents in accordance

with the classification of the Venezuelan Customs tariff.

PROHIBITIONS: letters; bees; cotton seed, cotton and cotton seed products (except oil, unmanufactured cotton and cotton waste: see below);"feathers and skins of wild birds (except ostrich feathers), unless for education or scientific purposes; films or pictorial representations of prize fights; intoxicating liquors; potatoes. RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of: arms; bulbs; cereals; cigars, cigarettes and cheroots; cotton waste and unmanufactured cotton; plants and parts of plants; sealskin in any form; virus, serums and toxins. INVOICE an invoice or statement giving accurately the value of the contents for Customs purposes should be enclosed in every parcel containing books and also in every sealed parcel containing merchandise; and the parcel should be marked on the address side INVOICE ENCLOSED. If, however. the invoice or statement relates to more parcels than one, it should be enclosed in parcel No. 1, and the remaining parcels should be marked INVOICE ENCLOSED IN PARCEL NO. 1.

If the value of the goods contained in a parcel or in several parcels sent at the same time by one sender to the same addressee exceeds 100 dollars, an invoice certified by a United States consul should be furnished. This invoice should be enclosed in the relative parcel, the Customs declaration being noted CONSULAR INVOICE ENCLOSED. When the consular invoice relates to more parcels than one, it should be enclosed in parcel No. 1, the Customs declaration being noted accordingly. The Customs declara- tions or covers of the remaining parcels should be marked CONSULAR INVOICE IN PARCEL NO. 1. If the sender prefers, however, the consular invoice may be sent separately to the addressee, the relative Customs declaration being suitably noted. When the consular invoice is enclosed no other invoice or statement of value need be furnished. If the consular invoice is sent separately to the addressee, a commercial invoice should be enclosed in the parcel.

ORIGIN: every article (except books imported by or for the account of any public library or library association) capable of being stamped, branded or labelled at the time of its manufacture, without suffering damage, must,

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