Postal_Guide_September_1961 — Page 182

180 Overseas Post

NEW ZEALAND (continued)

Supplemental services available: Insurance, air and surface, limit $800 (compensa- tion is not payable for insured parcels containing liquids, semi-liquids, perishable or fragile articles.

Customs declaration: One adhesive form.

Prohibitions: Letters; cooking utensils made wholly or partly of lead or a lead alloy.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Articles bearing the Royal Arms or the New Zealand Coat of Arms; bees and bee-keeping appliances; bulbs, fruit, plants and seeds and grain, grain by-products and any plant product in a form suitable for feeding to stock; all meat products (see Restrictions under LETTER POST); coins; dangerous drugs; firearms; second-hand clothing, except gifts for personal use; skins; feathers or eggs of birds; toilet articles made of animal hair; veterinary biologics.

Gift parcels not exceeding £1 in value are admitted free of duty.

Customs duty: Advertising matter (catalogues, price lists and so on) is subject to customs duty under the New Zealand customs tariff; but trade catalogues and price lists relative to the goods of firms or persons having no established business in New Zealand are not liable to duty.

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

NICARAGUA

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards

Letters

First oz., 40c.,

each oz. after, 25c.

25c.

Postcards

$1.00

Each oz., $2.00

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Printed papers. (4) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (5) Samples, limit 1 lb. (6) Small Packets. (7) Blind literature.

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

Prohibitions : Bank-notes; coin; gold; platinum; silver. Any Communist material or literature is liable to confiscation by the Nicaraguan postal authorities.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface (via London)

Air mail

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

$9.00 10.50 12.00 16.00 27.50

Each lb., $10.00

Supplemental services available: None.

Customs declaration and language: Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Spanish as well as English.

Prohibitions: Letters; firearms, except under permit; petrol lighters; telegraph apparatus. Any Communist material or literature is liable to confiscation by the Nicaraguan postal authorities.

Invoice: A commercial invoice in triplicate, made out in Spanish and certified by a consul for Nicaragua, is required for parcels containing goods valued at 10 U.S. dollars or over.

Sealing: Parcels should be sealed with a distinctive device.