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152 Overseas Post

IRAN (continued)

Delivery: Additional charges for conveyance from the Iranian frontier are collected from the addressee.

Compensation is not payable for damage to uninsured parcels containing porcelain, glassware and other exceptionally fragile articles if the damage occurs in the Indian service.

Address: BLOCK capital letters or typescript should be used.

IRAQ

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

First oz., 40c., 25c.

each oz. after, 25c.

Letters Postcards

Letters Each oz., $1.30 Postcards

65c.

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter post. (2) Regis- tration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,840 (principal towns only). (4) Printed papers. (5) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (6) Samples, limit 1 lb. (7) Small packets. (8) Blind literature.

Customs declarations: (1) and (7) Green label.

Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted); hair dye containing diamine; lottery tickets and football coupons; packets of coloured pictorial postcards by printed papers post; rubber balloons.

Restrictions apply to the importation of plants. Diamonds may only be imported on production of an import permit, a certificate of origin and a manufacturer's declaration approved by the official authorities of the country of origin; gold, gold coins and all foreign currency may only be imported under permit from Foreign Exchange Control Committee, Baghdad.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

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

$6.00 8.00 10.00 12.00 21.00

Air mail Each lb., $6.50

Supplemental services available: None.

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

Prohibitions: Letters, except one for the addressee; air-guns; arms and parts of arms, except sporting guns (admitted under permit); hair dye containing diamine; rubber balloons; unmanufactured tobacco; woven goods bearing designs in imitation of paper money and so on.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Cotton and cotton seeds (cotton goods are admitted); drugs and chemical supplies; liqueurs, wines and spirits; plants, parts of plants and bulbs; serums; wireless apparatus. Diamonds may only be imported on production of an import permit, a certificate of origin and a manu- facturer's declaration approved by the official authorities of the country of origin; gold, gold coins and all foreign currency may only be imported under permit from Foreign Exchange Control Committee, Baghdad.

Packing and marking: Parcels containing cinematograph or photographic films or articles made wholly or partly of celluloid must be clearly labelled Celluloid.

Import licences are required for many types of goods, and these should not be despatched until the necessary licence has been obtained by the addressee.

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

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