Page 115 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

POST OFFICE GUIDE 115

Overseas Post: Foreign Countries, conld.

BRAZIL
Letter Post
Surface 1
Air Mail / See Schedules of Letter Rates.
Dutiable articles may be sent by registered and small packet post—up to SI00
green label required; thereafter top green label and form C2/CP3 to be written in
Portuguese, Spanish or French and English. Items subject to customs duty arc
not accepted in ordinary and registered letters. Scrums, vaccines and urgently
required medicaments arc admitted in all cases.
Items of value (c.g. coins, currency notes gold etc.) arc not admitted in regis­
tered letters.
Insurance: No Service.
Prohibitions: Bank notes, currency notes or securities of any kind payable to
bearer; butane gas lighters and refills, primary educational books not written in
Portuguese, coins, jewellery, articles of gold, silver, platinum or other precious
metals manufactured or not, narcotics, lottery tickets, precious stones; postage
stamps except in registered letters, salted or smoked meat, bones and other food­
stuffs of animal origin.
Restrictions: apply to the importation of: Medicines, plants, including bulbs
and seeds.

Parcel Post
Surface See Schedule of Overseas Surface and Air Parcel Post Rates.
Air: No. Service.
Customs declarations: 2 forms C2./CP3 and 1 despatch note CP2 written in
Portuguese, Spanish or French and English.
Insurance: No Service.
Prohibitions: Letters, Abortifacients, lottery tickets, narcotics arms, butane
gas lighters, coins, jewellery, precious stones and other precious objects; cotton
seed and unginned cotton; raw cotton and cotton waste unless accompanied by a
certificate of disinfection from a competent authority; postage stamps; primary
educational books not written in Portuguese, salted or smoked meat, bones and
other foodstuffs of animal origin.
Restrictions: Alcoholic liquors; articles of gold, silver, platinum or other
precious metals; bees; chemicals and medicines; foodstuffs; plants, including
bulbs and seeds; saccharin and similar substances.
Import licences arc required for all classes of goods and must be obtained in
advance by the addressee.

Parcels without import licences are liable to a fine equal to ICO percent of
c.i.f. value of the goods.
Address: Poste Restante may not be used as an address.
'Invoice: 4 copies of a consular invoice are required for every commercial
Parcel or consignment of parcels of which the value exceeds the equivalent of
25 U.S. dollars, posted at the same time to one addressee.
Sealing: Parcels should be sealed with a distinctive device.