Postal_Guide_September_1961 — Page 120

118 Overseas Post

DUTCH WEST INDIES (Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire, St. Maarten (or St. Martin), St. Eustatius, Saba) See NETHERLANDS ANTILLES

ECUADOR

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards

Letters Postcards

First oz., 40c., 25c.

each oz. after, 25c.

Each oz., $2.50

$1.25

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, registered letter and registered sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Printed papers. (4) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (5) Samples, limit 1 Ib. (6) Small Packets. (7) Blind literature. Customs declarations and language: (1) and (6) Green label and two non-adhesive forms. Spanish or French as well as English.

Prohibitions: Bank-notes, currency notes, coin.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Plants and seeds.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

(direct)

(via London)

Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. lllb. 22lb.

$8.50 8.50 10.50 13.00 21.50

$11.00 12.50 14.00 17.00 28.00

Air mail Each lb, $12.00

Supplemental services available: None.

Customs declaration and language: Three non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Prohibitions: Letters: arms; gaming appliances. The importation of many other classes of goods into Ecuador is prohibited.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Alcoholic beverages; cigarette paper; cotton goods; manufactured or leaf tobacco; pharmaceutical products; plants and seeds. A certificate of disinfection and a statement giving details of the contents must accompany all parcels containing used clothing.

Invoice : A consular invoice should be sent separately by letter post to the addressee for every parcel or consignment of parcels for one addressee, of which the value exceeds 40 U.S. dollars or its equivalent in sucres at the official rate of exchange, sent from a place in which an Ecuadorean consular officer is resident; otherwise a fine is imposed by the Ecuadorean authorities. For parcels containing goods of value below 40 U.S. dollars or its equivalent in sucres, the importers have to pay in the Customs an amount equivalent to the consular fees. Commercial parcels are liable to confiscation unless the addressee holds an import permit from the Central Bank (of Ecuador).

Charges: Charges for inland conveyance are collected from the addressees, except at Bahia, Esmeraldas, Guayaquil and Manta.

EGYPT (United Arab Republic)

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards

Letters

First oz., 40c., 25c.

each oz. after, 25c.

Each oz., $1.30

Postcards

65c.

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter post. (2) Regis- tration. (3) Insured letters, air and surface, limit $1,840. (4) Insured boxes, air and surface, limit $1,840. (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (7) Samples, limit 1 lb., except for samples of cotton or cotton materials, for which the limit is 5 lb. (8) Blind literature.

Customs declarations: (1) Green label and non-adhesive form. (4) Two non- adhesive forms.

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