Page 133 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

POST OFFICE GUIDE 133

Overseas Post: Foreign Countries, contd.

COOKS ISLANDS, (New Zealand Island Territories), contd.
Restrictions: Articles bearing the Royal Arms or the New Zealand Coat of
Arms; bees and bee-keeping appliances; dangerous drugs; firearms; bulbs;
fruit; plants; second-hand clothing except gifts for personal use; skins; feathers
or eggs of birds; toilet articles made from animal hair; veterinary biologies.
Compensation is not payable for uninsured parcels containing liquids, semi-
liquids, perishable or fragile articles.
Insurance: Letters and parcels for the Tokelau (or Union) Group are acccp'cd
for insurance as far as Apia, Western Samoa only. Letters and parcels for
islands other than Rarotonga and Savage (Niue) are accepted for insurance as
far as Rarotonga only. Senders are advised to mark such postal packets “To be
Insured as far as the Service Permits.”

CORSICA
Letter Post: Same as France.
Parcel Post
Surface \ See Schedule of Overseas Surface and Air Parcel Post Rates.
Air /

Customs declarations: 2 forms C2/CP3 and 1 despatch note CP2 written in
French and English.
Insurance: No Service.
Prohibitions: Letters; arms (except sporting guns admitted under permit);
charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged I ghters are admitted but
there should be an appropriate indication of the contents on the cover of the
parcel); playing cards; saccharin.
Restrictions: Cut flowers; drugs, eggs of game birds during close season; fish
and game; fresh fruit; fresh vegetables and potatoes, gramophone records:—
living plants, roots and bulbs; preserved fish, plums and vegetables; shrubs,
scrums and vaccines and simi'ar preparations; gold, silver, platinum and plated
articles.

COSTA RICA
Letter Post
Surface )
Air Mail /See Schedules of Letter Rates.
Insurance: No Service.
Dutiable articles may be sent by letter and small packet post—up to S100
green label written in Spanish and English required; thereafter top green label
and form C2/CP3.
Items of value (e.g. coins, currency notes, gold, etc.) are not admitted in
registered letters.
Prohibitions: Jewellery except in registered packets bearing green label,
lottery tickets.
Parcel Post
Surface: See Schedule of Overseas Surface and Air Parcel Post Rates.
Air: No Service.