Postal_Guide_September_1961 — Page 143

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GREECE (continued)

Customs duty: Except for items sent by the Small Packet service, articles liable to customs duty sent to Greece by letter post may be subject to double the normal customs charges.

Prohibitions: Cigarette papers; coin, gold, jewellery, platinum, precious stones, silver; Greek bank-notes; playing cards; printed matter (periodicals, books etc.) prohibited from circulation in Greece in the interests of public order; saccharin ; salt; tobacco in any form.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Patent medicines; plants and parts of plants, tins of condensed milk; worn clothing.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface (via Genoa)

Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. lllb. 221b.

$6.00 9.50 11.00 13.00 24.00

Air mail Each 1 lb., $9.00

Supplemental services available : Insurance, surface only, limit $1,840.

Customs declaration and language: Three non-adhesive forms and despatch note. French or Greek as well as English.

Prohibitions: Letters; arms (except sporting guns under permit); charged butane gas lighters and refills if sent via France (uncharged lighters are admitted and should be declared as such on the customs declaration forms); playing cards; printed matter (periodicals, books etc.) prohibited from circulation in Greece in the interests of public order; saccharin; salt.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Cigarette papers; patent medicines ; plants, and parts of plants; tins of condensed milk; tobacco in any form; worn clothing and footwear, and used bed linen.

Customs duty: All goods, including items sent in gift parcels, are subject to payment in Greece of customs duty at current rates.

Commercial parcels are, in general, subject to import restrictions and senders are advised to ascertain from the addressees, before despatching such parcels, whether an import licence, if required, has been obtained. A copy of the relative invoice should be enclosed in each parcel.

Compensation is not payable for damage to parcels containing liquids, fragile articles or perishable goods if the damage occurs in the Italian service.

GREENLAND

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards

Letters Postcards

First oz., 40c.,

each oz, after, 25c.

25c.

65c.

Each 1 oz., $1.30

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter post (except insured letters) and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,840. (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,840. (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (7) Samples, limit 1 lb. (8) Small Packets. (9) Blind literature.

Customs declarations: (1) and (8) Green label. (4) One non-adhesive form. Restrictions apply to the importation of: Almanacs; butane gas lighters and refills; Danish stock and share certificates; medicines.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb. 22lb.

(via Copenhagen)

Air mail

No service

$5.00 6.00 8.00 10.00 16.00