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I went to the post office the other day to post my parents birthday presents only to discover that USPS has stopped sea mail. Only air mail is available with prices starting at $21! The good news is that parcels will be delivered quickly but at a high cost. In researching this on the internet I discovered the Country Conditions for Mailing to Australia. Check them out as some are quite funny.
Prohibitions
- Coins; bank notes; currency notes (paper money); securities of any kind payable to bearer; traveler’s checks; platinum, gold, and silver (manufactured or not); precious stones; jewelry; and other valuable articles are prohibited.
- Fruit cartons (used or new).
- Goods bearing the name “Anzac.”
- Goods produced wholly or partly in prisons or by convict labor.
- Perishable infectious biological substances.
- Radioactive materials.
- Registered philatelic articles with fictitious addresses.
- Seditious literature.
- Silencers for firearms.
- Used bedding.
Restrictions
Meat and other animal products; powdered or concentrated milk; and other dairy products requires permission to import from the Australian quarantine authorities.
Permission of the Australian Director-General of Health is required to import medicines.
Observations
Duty may be levied on catalogs, price lists, circulars, and all advertising introduced into Australia through the mail, regardless of the class of mail used.
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