Page 208 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

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Oversells Post: Foreign Countries, could.
OMAN (Sultanate of) could.
Compensation is not payable for ordinary parcels lost, stolen or damaged.
Packing: Parcels should be strongly packed.
PAKISTAN
Letter Post
Surface \
Air Mail /See Schedule of Letter Rates
Dutiable articles may be sent by letter and small packet post—up to SI00
green label required; (the customs declaration must be securely attached to the
outside of the packet); thereafter top green label and form C2/CP3.
Items of value (c.g. coins, currency notes, gold etc.) arc not admitted in re­
gistered letters.
Insurance: Limit S4-40. The service is not available to those places shown under
Parcel Post.
Prohibitions: Arms, currency notes, celluloid and articles wholly or partly
made of celluloid, dangerous drugs, literature relating to and tickets for lotteries.
Account and manuscript books, advertising matter (with the exception of trade
catalogues and circulars) almanacs, cards in general, labels, photographs, picture
books printed, forms and works of art are prohibited from importation by
printed paper post when sent as merchandise: plants, wireless apparatus.
Restrict ions: Silver bullion and silver sheets and plates; Bank-notes, coin and
currency notes.
Address: Registered and insured packets addressed to post-box numbers only,
that is, without the actual address of the addressee arc inadmissible.
Parcel Post
Surface \
Air /See Schedule of Oversea Surface and Air Parcel Post Rates.
Insurance: Limit S750.
Customs declarations: 2 forms C2/CP3 and 1 despatch note CP2.
Prohibitions: Letters, except one for the addressee; coffee plants, seeds or
beans (except roasted beans); cotton and woollen piece-goods, arms and parts
thereof; munitions; bronze or copper coins; charged butane gas lighters and
refills; labels or woven goods bearing designs in imitation of paper money;
quinine coloured pink; sulphur; tickets for lotteries.
Restrictions: Potatoes and seeds, gold and silver bullion and silver sheets and
plates; plants and parts of plants; wireless transmitting apparatus.
Import Licence: A licence, to be obtained by the addressee in advance, is
required for importation into Pakistan by post of almost all goods. Senders are
advised to confirm before posting a parcel that the licence, when it is necessary,
has been obtained by the addressee.
Gift Parcels: Import licences arc not required for gift parcels of books,
magazines, journals and medicines, or for gift parcels for foreign nationals of
other goods excluding textiles (not made-up garments), imitation jewellery,
watches and watch bands, fountain pens, cameras and radio sets up to a value of
300 rupees a year.