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216 Overseas Post

SUDAN (Republic of the)

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PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

(via Aden)

Air mail

Not over

No service

Supplemental services available:

2lb. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb. 22lb. $8:00 10.00 11.00 15.00 27.50

Insurance, limit $930, surface only.

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

Prohibitions: Letters; bees and leeches; coin; unginned cotton.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Alcoholic liquors; arms (see Packing below); cotton and cotton seed; drugs; living plants, including bulbs; saccharin; sugar; sulphur; food containers,

Import licences are required for a few classes of goods; and if a licence is neces- sary, senders are advised to confirm before posting a parcel that it has been or will be obtained by the addressee.

Packing: Parcels should be very strongly packed, and those for the Southern Sudan should be enclosed in waterproof wrapping.

Compensation is not payable for damage to parcels containing liquids, liquefiable substances, or glass or other brittle articles.

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

SUDANESE REPUBLIC (Federation of Mali)

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards Letters

Postcards

First oz., 40c.. 25c. Each oz., $1.30

65c.

each oz. after, 25c.

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

Customs declarations and language: (1) and (8) Green label. (4) one non- adhesive form. French as well as English.

Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted).

Insurance is available only to those places which are marked with an asterisk in the list under PARCEL POST.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface (via Marseille)

Air mail

Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb. 221b.

$7.00 8.00 10.00 12.00 22.00

No service

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

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

Prohibitions: Letters; counters resembling coin; weights and

measures not of the decimal system; and, in addition, all goods bearing indications which suggest they are of French origin or manufacture when they are not. Restrictions apply to the importation of: Arms, including air-guns; books and printed matter in Arabic; mineral waters; preserved plums, sardines and vegetables; saccharin and similar substances; spirits.