106 Overseas Post
CHILE (continued)
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Arms, except sporting weapons; pharma- ceutical products; saccharin. Import licences are not required but heavy surcharges are payable on many goods.
Gift parcels: Gifts are subject to customs duties and other charges in the same way as ordinary commercial consignments. For parcels up to 100 U.S. dollars in value payment of the surcharges mentioned above may be waived.
Invoice: A commercial invoice containing a declaration of origin of the goods must accompany every commercial parcel or consignment of parcels posted at the same time by one sender to the same addressee.
Packing: Parcels should be very strongly packed, tin boxes being used for preference. Parcels packed in paper only are not accepted. A special yellow label, bearing the name of the sender and a warning to keep the packet away from fire, must be affixed to parcels containing films or celluloid,
Delivery: Parcels are not delivered to the place of address. Addressees are notified of their arrival and have to collect them from the Post Office after the necessary import and other regulations have been compiled with.
CHINA (including Tibet and Manchuria) (separate entry for TAIWAN)
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters Postcards
First oz., 10c.,
5c.
Each 1 oz., 50c.
25c.
each oz. after, 10c.
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Printed papers. (4) Samples, limit 1 lb. (5) Commercial papers. (6) Small packets. (7) Blind literature.
Customs declarations: (1) and (6) Green label.
Prohibitions: Arms; Chinese Money, currency notes or other documents of value in Chinese money, except under authorization from the People's Bank of China; equipment for smoking opium and similar substances; medical goods except those of proprietary brands; narcotics for medical use except on presentation by the addressee of an import permit from the Chinese Ministry of Health; all printed matter, gramophone records, films in any way prejudical to the Chinese Govern- ment; stamps except by gift exchange when the value of the stamps sent to one addressee does not exceed ILK.862 a month; undeveloped film; packages bearing false declaration of contents.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Bulbs, plants and seeds; radio sets and parts thereof, electrical apparatus operating at high frequencies, amplifiers, con- densers, etc.
Small packets must bear the endorsement "Petit Paquet" or the equivalent Chinese characters.
Air mail service: The service extends to all destinations in China. Correspondence is sent by rail to Canton.
PARCEL POST
Service suspended.
CHRISTMAS ISLAND (Pacific Ocean) See GILBERT and ELLICE ISLAND COLONY
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