Page 136 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

136 POST OFFICE GUIDE

Overseas Post: Foreign Counlrics, contd.

CYRENAICA—See Libya
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Letter Post
Surface 1
Air Mail ; See Schedules of Letter Rates.
Dutiable articles may be sent by letter (except insured letters) and small packet
post—up to S100 green label required; thereafter top green label and form
C2/CP3.
Insurance: Limit S800.
Prohibitions: German coin and paper money, butane gas lighters and refills.
Restrictions: Czechoslovak bank-notes and coin; valuable documents;
platinum, gold and silver; medicines; plants and parts of plants; postage stamps,
serums and vaccines, tobacco.
Parcel Post
Surface \ See Schedule of Overseas Surface and Air Parcel Post
Air / Rates.
Customs declarations: 1 form C2/CP3 and 1 despatch note CP2.
Insurance: Limit S230
Prohibitions: Letter, German coin and paper money; meat preservatives: goods
(other than medicines) in sealed or hermetically closed tins; butane gas lighters
and refills.
Restrictions: Czechoslovak bank-notes and coin; valuable documents;
platinum, gold and silver; arms and parts of arms; bees, bees wax and honey;
colours containing lead and copper; cosmetics; meat; lard; medicines; dried and
artificially coloured fruit; plants and parts of plants; postage stamps; potatoes;
scrums and vaccines; tobacco in any form; wireless apparatus. No parcels other
than gift parcels and parcels containing printed matter only may be sent to
private persons.

Gift Parcels: Gift parcels may be sent only by private persons, and not by
commercial undertakings. Worn clothing, linen footwear and alcohol must not be
sent in gift parcels.
Medicine will be admitted free of customs duty if the addressee has the necessary
certificate and provided it is not included with other articles in gift parcels
No printed matter (books, periodicals and so on), gramophone records, sound
tapes or cinematographic films may be sent as gifts unless the parcel or packet
contains nothing but these items.

Customs declarations must be legibly written and must specify in detail the
number, weight and value of each item enclosed. Each item must be listed
separately.
Packing: Parcels must be strongly packed to withstand the length of the jour­
ney and to protect the contents.