Postal_Guide_July_1957 — Page 166

Overseas Post 165

POLAND (continued)

Address: The place name Danzig should not be used; the correct form of address for this place is Gdansk, and this should be employed.

PARCEL POST

Supplemental services available: Insurance, surface only, limit $1,600. Customs declaration: set for each parcel). Prohibitions : Documents, printed matter, books, periodicals, sketches, photo- graphs, photographic films, negatives or paper, gramophone recordings etc. con- taining matter prejudicial to Polish laws and customs; labels, empty receptacles and so on having the names of non-Polish firms sent without goods; radio-active matter.

Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note (a separate

Restrictions; Arms and explosives; medicines, narcotics, serums, and vaccines; fruits, plants, parts of plants and seeds; meat and other animal products; monetary documents; currency, precious metals and stones. Commercial parcels are not in general, admitted unless an import licence has been obtained from the appropriate Polish authority.

Customs duty: All articles (including those sent in Gift parcels) are liable to customs duty. Electrical deaf-aids and surgical belts, hose, etc., required for the personal use of the addressee or a member of his family are, however, admitted free of duty if the addressee holds a permit issued by the Polish health authorities. Gift parcels are admitted generally without import restrictions.

Address: The place name Danzig should not be used; the correct form of address for this place is Gdansk, and this should be employed.

PORTUGAL

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards Letters

Postcards

First oz., 40c., 25c. Each 1 oz., $1.30

65c.

each oz. after, 25c.

(6)

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post (green label packets must be conspicuously marked En Douane in addition to bearing a green label), (2) Registration.

(2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,600. (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,600. (5) Printed papers. Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (7) Samples, limit 1 lb. (8) Blind literature. Customs declarations and language: (1) Green label and one non-adhesive form. (4) One non-adhesive form. Portuguese or French as well as English. Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted); tobacco.

Restrictions apply to the importation of medicines.

Customs duty : Bound or sewn books are liable to customs duty.

PARCEL POST

Supplemental services available: Insurance, limit $1,600, surface only.

Customs declaration and language: Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Portuguese or French as well as English,

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; saccharin, and similar substances.

Import licences: With certain exceptions, parcels containing goods up to the value of 2,500 escudos may be imported into Portugual without an import licence or prior registration. An import licence is required for all parcels containing goods exceeding 2,500 escudos in value.

Invoice: An invoice certified by a Portuguese consular representative is required in respect of each consignment of goods over 550 escudos in value. These invoices should not accompany the parcels but should be sent direct to the addressee. Packing: Celluloid (seasoned), films and other articles made of celluloid must be packed in soldered tin boxes enclosed in strong wooden boxes.