Page 43 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1938

48 OVERSEA MAILS: RESTRICTIONS.

INADMISSIBLE ARTICLES.
Articles which may not be sent by letter post are also excluded from transmission in
small packets; and, in addition, the following may not be sent in small packets:
Letters, notes or documents having the character of actual and personal correspon­
dence (but an open invoice as well as a copy of the name and address of the
sender and the addressee may be enclosed); coin; bank notes; currency notes
negotiable instruments payable to bearer; platinum, gold or silver; precious
stones; jewels and other valuable articles; postage stamps whether obliterated
or not, or any paper representing a monetary value.
Thegreenlabel (Form C 1.) must be attached to each such packet. The countries to which
“ small packets” may be sent are indicated by the letter (c) (italicized) in Table, pp.
62-72. The limit of weight of a small packet is 2 lbs.
M erchandize m ust not be sent to coun tries not so marked.
(g) Parcel-Post Parcels. See pp. 51 to 60.
PROHIBITIONS IN THE REGULAR MAILS.
To all oversea countries.— (a) All articles excluded from transmission in the inland
mails, as being in themselves, either from their form or nature, liable to destroy or injure
the contents of the mail bags cr the persons of those engaged in the Postal Service, are
prohibited from transmission in the mails exchanged with foreign countries, as are also
poisons, including opium, and other narcotics, or explosive and inflammable articles, and
obscene books, pamphlets, etc.
(b) Samples, the number of which mailed to one addressee by the same sender shows
the evident intention of avoiding the collection of customs duties.
(c) Articles other than letters and single post cards which are wholly unpaid, or in- i
sufficiently prepaid.
(d) Packages of samples of merchandise which contain live animals and insects
except bees, silk worms, and leeches, and which have a saleable value.
For further details, consult British Post Office Guide, Col. 8, Table of Bates (letters)
and “ Liste des objets interdits.”
Special attention is directed to the fact that all articles prohibited from dispatch to Great
Britain in parcel-post mail are also excluded from dispatch by letter-mail. (See “ Liste des
objets interdits,’’ page 365, AI (b) also pp. 58 and 59 of this Guide for such prohibitions.)
See Restrictions below.
Restrictions.
Bank notes and currency notes, coin, postage stamps, bullion, precious stones, jewels,
* and other precious articles may only be sent by registered mail prepaid at the letter rate
of postage. The following is a list of the principal countries which admit such articles
in their registered letter mail:—Austria, Australia, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda,
Canada, Canal Zone, Ceylon, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Denmark, El
Salvador, Fiji Islands, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
Holland, India, Irish Free State, Japan, Luxemburg, Mexico, Newfoundland, New Zea­
land, Nigeria, Palestine, Paraguay, Philippine Islands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Rhodesia
(N. and S.), St. Lucia, St. Vincent, South Africa, Switzerland, United States of America,
U. S. of Soviet Republics and Virgin Islands, U.S.A.
Coin exceeding £5 in value may not be sent to Great Britain, or India unless
declared to be for purposes of ornament.
Coin, jewellery, precious articles and bank notes, etc., should not be accepted for
transmission by registered letter mail for any country not named in the above list.
REGISTRATION (OVERSEAS.) f
Every letter or letter packet presented for registration must be made up in the
manner prescribed at page 10 for inland letters or letter packets, and must not show any
trace of having been opened and refastened before posting.
“ Small packets,’’packets of printed papers, commercial papers and samples presented
for registration must be made up in the manner prescribed for unregistered packets
of these categories. *
* See definition of term “ jewellery,” page 12, par. 12.
t Conditions governing registration of overseas correspondence differ from those
governing inland correspondence. See page 11.