Page 59 - Jamaica Post Office Guide 1977

58 POST OFFICE GUIDE

General Information: Prohibitions, contd.

9. Any article containing coin or gold bullion exceeding ten dollars in vali
except coins used or designed for ornamental purposes and declared i
such.
10. Any article prohibited by the postal, customs or other laws or regulatii
of the country or place in which the article is posted or to which it
addressed or through which it must pass.
11. Carbon or soiled paper, liquid celluloid, oilskins and similar oiled good
12. Soil.
13. Perishable articles except when addressed to a destination within tl
island or when enclosed in a hermetically sealed tin.
14. Liquids unless packed as provided in the section of the Guide headt
“Special Packing Regulations for Certain Articles”.
15. Articles composed wholly or partly of raw celluloid roll film and cin
matograph films unless packed as provided in the section of the Gui
headed “Special Packing Regulations for Certain Articles”.
16. Articles consisting of or containing two or more postal articles (of tl
same or different inscriptions) addressed to different persons who are i
different addresses.
17. Articles infringing trade mark or copyright laws.
18. Articles having anything written, printed or otherwise impressed aero
the postage stamps thereon before posting.
Apart from the prohibitions mentioned above, many countries abroad i
various reasons, impose restrictions on the importation of certain articles. Th
the importation of:
(a) arms, may be restricted in the interest of public security:
(b) pharmaceutical preparations, fresh meat and other foodstuffs, soil
clothing in the interest of public health;
(c) plants and parts of plants, including fruit, especially the vine in the ca
of vine-growing countries, usually for the prevention of the spread
phylloxera;
(d) hides, skins, wool and other external parts of animals, for the protectit
of animals, against contagious disease;
(e) tobacco, playing cards, salt, as subject to State Monopoly.
(f) lottery tickets.
(g) intoxicating liquors.
Articles so restricted can, as a rule, be sent if they comply with certain co
ditions and in some cases a sanitary certificate in a prescribed form is necessal
In general, plants must be packed securely in such a way that they can be eas
examined and where a phylloxera or other sanitary certificate is required, t
despatch note, customs declaration and the cover of the parcel should be not
for example, “Phylloxera certificate annexed.''.
Parcels containing articles known to be prohibited from importation into t
country of destination are not forwarded but are returned to the senders; pare
declared to contain articles of which the importation is permitted only un<
certain conditions will, generally speaking, be accepted and despatched. T
onus of ensuring compliance with these conditions rests with the sender; and t
Jamaica Post Office accepts no responsibility for the return or seizure of &1
parcel through the failure of the sender or addressee to comply with the necessa
formalities.