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Overseas Post

AFGHANISTAN (continued)

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb. 22lb. $8.00 8.50 9.50 11.00 20.00

Air mail

No service

(Badakhshan, Gardez, Herat, Jalalabad, Kabul, Kandahar, Kataghan, Maimena and Mazar-i-Sharif only.

Supplemental services available:

None.

Customs declaration : One non-adhesive form and despatch note (a separate set for each parcel).

Prohibitions: Letters; alcoholic drinks; jewellery; living plants; narcotics; pearl necklaces, silk and artistic articles in silk.

The importation of many classes of goods is prohibited.

Restrictions apply to the importation by sea route of: Cigars, cigarettes and tobacco; confectionery; fountain pens and parts thereof; lead and propelling pencils; lighters; perfumes; playing cards; saccharin; spectacles and sun glasses; spirits; synthetic gems; watches and parts thereof.

Invoice: Parcels of merchandise must contain a copy of the relative invoice. Compensation is not payable for damage to porcelain, glassware and other exceptionally fragile articles, if the damage occurs in the Indian or Pakistani services.

ALASKA See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ALBANIA

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Letters

Air mail

Postcards Letters Postcards

First oz., 40c., each oz. after, 25c.

25c.

Each oz., $1.30

65c.

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, sample post only. (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 and two non-adhesive forms. Albanian or French as well as English.

Prohibitions: Photographic film, plates & paper.

Restrictions: Medicines for personal use are admitted providing the addressee is in possession of a medical certificate.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface (via Genoa)

Air mail

Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7b. 11lb. 22lb.

$8.50 10.00 11.00 14.00 24.00

Each lb., $9.00

Supplemental services available: None.

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

Prohibitions: Arms except sporting guns under permit; articles prejudicial to the state and to public order; charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted and should be declared as such on the customs declaration forms); narcotics, saccharin.

Restrictions apply to the importation of plants and parts of plants. Medicines for personal use are admitted providing the addressee is in possession of a medical certificate. Worn clothing must be accompanied by a certificate of disinfection. The importation of many articles is subject to the production of a certificate of origin, and an import permit which must be obtained by the addressee in advance.