'Iraqi Post and Telegraph Guide 1930' [‎175v] (369/483)

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Foreign Post Directory.
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%emarTts The customs declarations relative to parcels for
Switzerland must furnish an exact description of the goods
and the quantity (gross and net weight, or, in the case of
watches, the number) as well as the value of each separate
article.
No compensation is given for damage, in Switzerland to parcels
containing liquids.
Syria —(1) State of Syria and State of Great Lebanon—•
(2) State of the Alaouites (Non-Union)
Letter Post II—
Letter postage ?''—3 annas for the 1st 20 grammes and annas for
every additional 20 grammes or part of that weight.
Route —Direct.
By Air—Through Palestine.
Insurance .—Available up to £ 80, for letters addressed to places
shown in the list of offices in Syria, Great Lebanon and the
Alaouites States at the end of this publication.
Special prohibitions ^—Ammunition ; animals or insects living or
dead, except bees and silk worms ; opium, hashish, cocaine
and its preparations ; sulphonal ; antitubercular serum ;
chlorate of potash and chlorate of Soda, picrates, nitro
glycerine, nitrate of potasium, saccharine ; morphia and its
compounds ; all articles injurious to health ; foreign leaf
tobacco ; cigarette papers for the use of the cigarette machine.
Parcel Post§§**—A list of the places for which parcels are
accepted is given at the end of this publication.
Route fa)—Through India.
(1) Eastern Zone.
Rates of postageX —•
Not over 1 kilo.
Rs.
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Customs declarations-
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3
13
2
Not over 5 kilos.
... 4
2
(2) . Western Zone. •
Rates of postage X
—Not over 1 kilo
Rs.
2
a.
10
Customs declarations-
—Not over 3 kilos.
3
13
3
Not over 5 kilos.
... 4
2
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