Postal_Guide_September_1961 — Page 169

HKPost Annual Reports & Postal Guides 香港郵政年報指南 All

MADEIRA (continued)

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface (via London)

Not over

2lb. 3lb. 7lb. lllb. 22lb. $8.00 9.50 10.50 13.50 24.00

Air mail

No service

Overseas Post

167

Supplemental services available: Insurance, surface only, limit $1,840. Customs declaration: One non-adhesive form and despatch note.

Prohibitions: Letters; gold; gold dust; oilskins and similar oiled goods; ostrich feathers not made up; tobacco; unobliterated postage and other stamps, and bonds and orders payable to bearer, except in insured parcels.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Arms; medicines; plants; saccharin and similar substances.

Invoice: An invoice certified by a Portuguese consular representative is required in respect of each consignment of goods over 550 escudos in value. These invoices should not accompany the parcels but should be sent direct to the addressee. Packing: Celluloid (seasoned), films and other articles made of celluloid must be packed in soldered tin boxes enclosed in strong wooden boxes.

Delivery: Addressees are notified of arrival of parcels and are required to arrange for their collection.

MAJORCA See BALEARIC ISLANDS

MALAYA, Federation of Malaya (Johore, Kedah, Kelantan, Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak, Perlis, Selangor and Trengganu)

(For SINGAPORE See separate entry)

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards

Letters

Postcards

First oz., 20c.

15c. Each 1 oz., 50c.

25c.

each oz. after, 15c.

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, air and surface, limit $1,840 to. Alor Star, Ipoh, Johore Bahru, Kota Bharu (Kelantan), Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Trengganu, Malacca, Penang, Seremban, Taiping and $960 to all other places. (4) Insured boxes, air and surface, limits as for insured letters. (5) Printed papers. (6) Com- mercial 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. Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills; coin, platinum, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery and other precious articles, except in insured boxes. Restrictions: See under PARCEL POST.

PARCEL FOST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Not over

21b. 3lb. 71b.

11lb. 22lb. $3.50 3.50 5.00 7.00 12.00 Each lb., $4.00

Supplemental services available: Insurance, air and surface, limit $1,840 to Alor Star, Ipoh, Johore Bahru, Kota Bharu, (Kelantan), Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Trengganu, Malacca, Penang, Seremban, Taiping and $960 to all other places; Cash on Delivery limit $640.

Customs declaration: One adhesive form.

Prohibitions: Letters; arms of every kind, including sporting guns and pistols or their component parts, charged butane gas lighters and refills; coin, platinum, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery and other valuable articles, and negotiable

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