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BRITISH GUIANA (continued)

Prohibitions: Letters, except one for the addressee.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Arms and munitions; drugs; plants and parts of plants (including bulbs and seeds); spirituous liquors.

Preferential Tariffs apply under certain conditions to British goods. Enquiries should be addressed to Department of Commerce and Industry.

Delivery: Parcels are not delivered to the place of address. Addressees are notified of the arrival of parcels and are advised to collect them from the Post Office of destination. No delivery charges are payable, but customs dues, if any, are collected by the Postmaster prior to the handing over of a parcel to the addressee.

BRITISH HONDURAS

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Letters

Air mail

Postcards Letters

Postcards

First oz., 20c., 15c. Each 4 oz., $2.00

$1.00

each oz. after, 15c.

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

Customs declarations: (3) One non-adhesive form. (7) Green label.

Prohibitions: Coin, gold, jewellery, platinum, precious stones, silver, except in insured boxes. Packets of pictorial postcards by printed papers post.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Supplemental services available: Insurance limit $1,600, surface only. Customs declaration : One adhesive form.

Prohibitions: Letters; arms, except smooth bore shortguns air-guns; coin or bullion unless for purposes of ornament; saccharin and similar substances; tobacco packed with other goods or sweetened with leaves of other plants.

Preferential Tariffs apply under certain conditions to British goods. Enquiries should be addressed to Department of Commerce and Industry.

BRITISH SOMALILAND See SOMALILAND PROTECTORATE

BRITISH TOGOLAND See GHANA

BRUNEI

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards Letters Postcards

First oz., 20c., 15c. Each oz., 50c.

each oz. after, 15c.

25c.

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, air & surface, limit $960. (4) Insured boxes. air & surface, limit $960. (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) Two non-adhesive forms. Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills.

Restrictions apply to the importation of plants.

PARCEL POST

Supplemental services available: Insurance, limit $880, surface only. Customs declaration : One adhesive form.