Postal_Guide_September_1961 — Page 235

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VATICAN CITY STATE (continued)

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) Blind literature.

Customs declarations and language: (1) Green label and one non-adhesive form. French as well as English. Printed papers must bear a green label, and any packet containing books (including music) requires one non-adhesive form in addition. Prohibitions: Bank-notes, coin, gold, jewellery, platinum, precious stones, silver; arms; clothing; mechanical lighters; perfumes; pharmaceutical preparations; photographic apparatus and films; playing cards; saccharin; tea; tobacco.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

(via Genoa)

Air mail

Not over 21b. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb. 221b.

$5.50 7.00 8.50 11.00 19.00 Each lb., $8.00

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

Customs declaration and language: Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Italian or French as well as English. Each declaration for a gift parcel, as well as the parcel itself, must be conspicuously marked Gift Parcel.

Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted and should be declared as such on the customs declaration forms),

VENEZUELA. (Republic of)

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards

Letters Postcards

First oz., 40c., 25c. Each 1 oz., $2.50

$1.25

each oz, after, 25c.

Supplemental services available: (1) Registration. (2) Printed papers. (3) Com- mercial papers, limit 4 lb. (4) Samples, limit 1 lb. (5) Small Packets. (6) Blind literature.

Customs declarations: (5) Green label and one non-adhesive form. (2) Printed matter liable to customs duty may be sent by printed papers post, provided that each packet bears a green customs label, and that a customs declaration is made out in quadruplicate for each packet or batch of packets not exceeding ten for the same addressee. One copy of the customs declaration must be enclosed with the printed matter, the others sent respectively to the Customs authorities at the port of entry (Gindad Bolivar, La Guaira, Maracaibo, or Puerdo Cabello) to the Director General of Posts, Caracas, and to the Sala de Examen de la Contaduria General de Hacienda, Caracas.

Prohibitions: Gold; jewellery; platinum; precious stones; silver; coin; bank- notes; currency notes and documents payable to bearer; all dutiable articles (except printed matter, see above, and samples without value) which, if found, are confiscated.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Patent medicines; plants and parts of plants and products from plants such as wheaten flour, except when preserved in tins or previously cooked. Certain articles are subject to import licence, and packets containing them should not be despatched until the necessary licence has been obtained by the addressee,

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

Not over

Air mail

21b. 3lb. 71b. 11lb. 22lb.

$9.00 10.00 12.00 14.00 23.00 Each lb., $12.00

Supplemental services available: None.

Customs declaration : Four non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Declarations should show the nature of contents in accordance with the classification of the

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