Postal_Guide_July_1957 — Page 98

Overseas Post 97

COOK (or HERVEY) ISLANDS (continued)

drugs; firearms; bulbs; fruit; plants, second-hand clothing, except gifts for personal use; skins; feathers or eggs of birds; toilet articles made of animal hair; veterinary biologics.

Compensation is not payable for uninsured parcels containing liquids, semi- liquids, perishable or fragile articles.

Insurance: Letters, boxes and parcels for islands other than Rarotonga and Savage (Niue) are accepted for insurance as far as Rarotonga only, and senders are advised to mark such postal packets To be insured as far as the service permits.

CORSICA

LETTER POST

Same as France.

PARCEL POST

Supplemental services available: None.

Customs declaration : Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Declara- tions should show the Post Office serial number of the parcel and should, as far as possible, be prepared in French as well as in English and in accordance with the classification of the French customs tariff. Weights and measures should be shown in the metric system.

Prohibitions: Letters; arms (except sporting guns admitted under permit): candles; charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted but there should be an appropriate indication of the contents on the cover of the parcel); playing cards; saccharin; and in addition all goods which do not comply with the requirements of the (French) Merchandise Marks Act.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Cut flowers; eggs of game birds during close season; fish and game; fresh fruit; fresh vegetables and potatoes, including seed potatoes; living plants, roots and bulbs; gramophone records; preserved fish, plums and vegetables; shrubs.

Information respecting the importation of medicines, insulin, serums and vaccines and similar preparations, gold, silver, platinum and plated articles.

The importation of certain other goods is subject to the production of an import licence, and such goods should not be despatched until the necessary licence has been obtained by the addressee.

COSTA RICA

LETTER POST

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Postage:

Surface

Letters Postcards

First oz., 40c., each oz. after, 25c.

25c.

Air mail

Letters

Each 4 oz.,

$2.00

Postcards

$1.00

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Printed papers. (4) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. Samples, limit 1 lb. (6) Small Packets. (7) Blind literature.

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Customs declarations and language: (1) and (6) Green label. French as well as English.

Prohibitions: Jewellery, except in registered packets bearing a green customs label.

PARCEL POST

Supplemental services available : None.

Customs declaration: Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note.

Prohibitions: Letters.

CRETE Same as GREECE