Page 130 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

130 POST OFFICE GUIDE

Overseas Post: Foreign Countries, contd.

COLOMBIA
Letter Post
Surface \
Air Mail / See Schedules of Letter Rates.
Dutiable articles may be sent by small packet post—up to S100 green label
(written in Spanish or French and English); required; thereafter top green label
and form C2/CP3.

Small packets must not exceed 1 lb in weight.
Items subject to customs duty are not accepted in ordinary and registered
letters. Serums, vaccines and urgently required medicaments are admitted in all
cases.
Items of value (e.g. coins, currency notes, gold etc.) arc not admitted in regis­
tered letters.
Insurance: No Service.
Prohibitions: Books and reviews of a communistic or atheistic nature.
Restrictions: Plants and seeds.

The importation of many other classes of goods into Colombia (including
San Andres and Providencia) is subject to restrictions and controls.
Invoice: An invoice in quintuplicate on a form certified by a Colombian Consul
is required in respect of packets containing goods over 100 pesos in value.
Parcel Post
Surface 1
Air / See Schedule of Overseas Surface and Air Parcel Post Rates.
Insurance: No Service.
Customs declarations and language: 2 forms C2/CP3 and 1 despatch note CP2.

Declarations must show the gross weight, net weight in kilogrammes and the
value not increased by costs of transmission or insurance. When one set of custom
declaration forms is used for a batch of two or three (not more) parcels from the
same sender to the same addressee, the required particulars, with the relative serial
number of the parcel, must be shown separately for each parcel written in Spanish
or French and English.
Prohibitions: Animal Products, letters, arms, parts of arms and ammunition,
coin of silver, copper or nickel; Colombian postage or fiscal stamps; saccharin,
except under permit; sprits and liqueurs, clocks, used clothing, coffee, cocoa,
chemicals, drugs textile;.
Restrictions: Boxes or packets of cigarettes and pressed tobacco; patent
medicines; plants, including seeds.
The importation of many classes of goods into Columbia (including San
Andres and Providencia) is controlled.
Invoice: A consular invoice, in quintuplicate, is required for commercial
parcels valued at more than 100 pesos. All consular invoices must show the
value of the goods in both sterling and United States dollars.