Postal_Guide_July_1957 — Page 191

190 Overseas Post

TIBET No service.

TOGO, BRITISH SPHERE

See GHANA

TOGO, FRENCH SPHERE

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards Letters

First oz., 40c., 25c.

each oz. after, 25c.

Postcards

65c.

Each oz., $1.30

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,600. (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,600. (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (7) Samples, limit 1 lb. (8) Small Packets. (9) Blind literature.

Customs declarations and language: (1) and (8) Green label. (4) One non- adhesive form. French as well as English.

Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted); coin; articles of gold, platinum or silver; jewellery; precious stones.

PARCEL POST

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

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

Prohibitions: Letters; arms, except sporting guns admitted under permit; charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted and should be declared as such on the customs declaration forms); medicaments not of French origin; saccharin and similar substances; silver coin, except French; spirits; weights and measures not of the decimal system; and all goods bearing indications which suggest they are of French origin when they are not.

Delivery: Addressees are notified of arrival of parcels and are required to arrange for their collection. Charges are collected except at Lomé.

TONGA (FRIENDLY ISLANDS)

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards

Letters Postcards

First oz., 20c., each oz. after, 15c.

15c.

Each 1 oz.,

65c.

$1.30

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,600 (Nukualofa and Vavau only). (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,600 (Nukualofa and Vavau only). (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 5 lb. (7) Samples, limit 5 lb. (8) Small Packets. (9) Blind literature.

Customs declarations: (1) and (8) Green label. (4) One non-adhesive form. Celluloid: Packets containing articles of celluloid or cinematograph films must bear a white label with the word CELLULOID or FILMS in plain black letters.

PARCEL POST

Supplemental services available:

None.

Customs declaration: One adhesive form.

Prohibitions: Spirits over 1 pint in quantity, or packed with other goods: tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and snuff in parcels over 11 lb. in weight or packed with other goods.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Fully and semi-manufactured gold; plants and parts of plants.

Compensation is not payable for uninsured parcels.