Page 158 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

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Overseas Post: Foreign Countries, contd.
GILBERT ISLANDS (including Line Islands (Fanning, Christmas and Wash­
ington Islands), Ocean Islands and Phoenix Islands), contd.
Restrictions: Brushwarc containing any animal hair, narcotics, films, celluloid.
Compensation is not payable.
GRAHAMLAND (British Antarctic Territory) Sec Falkland Islands and Falk­
land Islands Dependencies.
GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Letter Post
Surface 1
Air Mail / See Schedules of Letter Rates.
Dutiable articles may be sent by letter and small packet post—up to $100
green label required; thereafter top green label and form C2/CP3.
Insurance: Limit S800.
Address: In order to secure prompt delivery, mails for the United Kingdom
must show the Post Town in block letters, fo'iowcd by the name of the country
on the last line; the Postcode written in Block Capitals must be placed to the right
hand side of the name of the Post Town.
Prohibitions: Coin, platinum, gold or silver manufactured or not, precious
stones, jewellery and other valuable articles, except in registered or insured letters,
meat and meat products (not fully cooked). Advertisements relative to betting,
arms, parts of arms, munitions and similar articles; contraband articles;
counterfeit bank or currency notes: counterfeit postage stamps whether obsolete
or not and articles bearing such stamps; fortune telling advertisements; living
creatures, except bees, leeches and silk worms and certain parasites and
destroyers of noxious insects intended for the control of such insects and
exchanged between officially recognised institutions: lottery tickets and
advertisements thereof: money lenders' circulars, shaving brushes made in or
exported from Japan. See also under parcels post.
Restrictions: Radio-active substances, narcotics, paints etc., celluloid, inflam­
mable films.
Parcel Post
Surface \ See Schedule of Overseas Surface and Air Parcels Post Rates.
Air /

Customs declarations: 1Yellow form CP3. Customs declarations must show
the net weight or quantity and value of each class of article and must bear the
signature of the sender.
Insurance: Limit S800.
Prohibitions: Cheque books (which must be sent by letter post only) rags
and bedding: soiled clothing; shaving brushes made in or exported from Japan:
goat hair and wool and goods mixed therewith.
Liquid or substances for analysis or medical examinations; Pathological
specimens;
Food products and beverages to which any preservative or other substance has
been added;
Opium, morphine, cocaine and other stupefying drugs except under authority,
from the British Home Office;