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lowing procedures apply to both postal union mail and parcel post packages:

(i) Before accepting an application for recall or change of address, require the applicant to identify himself as the sender or the sender's authorized representative.

(ii) If the piece is not located at the immediate point of mailing and the applicant desires the search continued, require the sender to submit a written application as prescribed in § 247.2, and collect the 20-cent fee indicated in § 247.3 (a) before conducting further search. If the piece is located and is returned to the sender, charge appropriate domestic postage unless it is a letter or post card. If the piece is not located, explain to the applicant the conditions set forth in § 247.3 (b) and (c).

(iii) It is recommended that requests be made to the postal administration of the country of destination rather than search being made at U.S. dispatching exchange offices. However, if the applicant desires search made at the exchange office and agrees to the conditions, send a request to the exchange office setting forth the details on the application and the particulars of dispatch to the exchange office, if known.

(iv) If the exchange office returns the piece, collect domestic postage for its conveyance to the exchange office and return, unless it is a letter or post card. If the search included the opening of made-up sacks, the exchange office will inform the post office requesting the search as to the cost, which should also be collected on delivery. The exchange office will likewise advise if the search was unsuccessful.

(v) Amounts collected on delivery of returned articles and parcels are accounted for by affixing postage due stamps to the mail articles and canceling.

(2) After dispatch from the United States. If the sender requests that the postal authorities of the country of destination be asked to intercept the piece, collect as prescribed in 247.33 and transmit with the application and facsimile address to the International Service Division, Bureau of Transportation and International Services, Post Office Department, Washington, D.C. 20260.

(3) Sender's mailing receipt. A mailing receipt relating to an article or parcel returned or redirected at the sender's request is to have the action taken noted thereon.

(b) Mail of foreign origin. Post offices may comply with a request for correction of address (without changing the addressee) and may forward an article or parcel to the same addressee at another U.S. post office without previous authorization from the Department. Comply with § 232.4(a) of this chapter in forwarding parcel post packages. If a request is received for redirection of a piece to another country, for return to origin, or for change of addressee, hold the piece and refer the request to the International Service Division, Bureau of Transportation and International Services, Post Office Department, Washington, D.C. 20260.

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States to any foreign country, to the Canal Zone, and to the Caroline, Mariana, and Marshall Islands.

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(b) From the United States to Puerto Rico and the U.S. possessions 2; (c) From Puerto Rico to the United States,1 and to the U.S. possessions; must fill out a shipper's export declaration on Department of Commerce Form 7525-V and present it at the post office at the time of mailing. The shipper's export declaration is required only for goods mailed for commercial purposes and not for goods which involve no commercial consideration. However, Commerce Form 7525-V must also be filed for shipments of all articles covered by a validated export license from the Bureau of International Commerce, Department of Commerce, regardless of value or whether the sender or addressee is a business concern. (See Part 252 of this chapter.) The declaration need not be furnished for catalogs, instruction books, and other advertising matter or for magazines, newspapers, and periodicals. It is also not required for shipments of technical data, regardless of value and whether or not they are covered by export licenses, except as stated in § 252.3 (e) of this chapter. Shippers who wish to correct a previously filed export declaration must submit such corrections to the post office on Commerce Form FT7403.

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Only a single copy of the shipper's export declaration is required for mail shipments. A single export declaration may include any number of packages mailed by one sender the same day to one addressee. Export declarations need not be notarized; however, signature in ink is required.

§ 251.3 Information to be furnished.

(a) The following are the only items on the shipper's export declaration (Commerce Form 7525-V) which are required to be filled in by the sender of a postal shipment:

(1) Item 1. Name of post office where shipment is being mailed. (Insert in

2 For purposes of this instruction the term "United States Possessions" refers to the Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, Samoa, Canton, and Enderbury Islands, Midway, and Wake Islands.

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(3) Item 4. Name and address of forwarding agent, if any.

(4) Item 5. Name and address of ultimate consignee.

(5) Item 6. Name and address of intermediate consignee, if any.

(6) Item 8. Country of final destination.

(7) Item 10. Number of packages being mailed; description of merchandise and export license number and expiration date, or general license symbol.

(8) Item 13. Schedule B, commodity number.

(9) Item 14. Net quantity of merchandise, in Schedule B units.

(10) Item 15. Value of merchandise. (b) To comply with the destination control regulations of the Commerce Department, each Form 7525-V, except for shipments addressed to Canada for consumption in that country, must bear one of the following statements:

(1) These commodities licensed by the United States for ultimate destination (name of country). Diversion contrary to U.S. law prohibited.

(2) These commodities licensed by the United States for ultimate destination (name of country) and for distribution or resale in (name of country). Diversion contrary to U.S. law prohibited.

(3) U.S. law prohibits distribution of these commodities to the Soviet Bloc, Communist China, North Korea, Macao, Hong Kong, or Communist controlled areas of Vietnam, or Cuba, unless otherwise authorized by the United States.

(c) The description of contents and units of quantity must be in the detail required by Schedule B, "Statistical Classification of Domestic and Foreign Commodities Exported from the United States" 1965 edition. The shipper may obtain copies of Schedule B for a nominal charge from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, from Collectors of Customs, or from Department of Commerce field offices located in principal cities of the United States. General descriptions, such as dry goods, groceries, or millinery, are not sufficient. Quantities and values must be given in whole numbers only, omitting fractions of less than one-half and counting one-half and over as a whole.

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Occasional shippers may obtain Form 7525-V free of charge at post offices. Regular exporters may purchase copies of the shipper's export declaration from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20401, from Collectors of Customs, or from Department of Commerce field offices. They may be privately printed, provided they conform to the official form in size, wording, color, quality (weight) of paper stock, and arrangement. Postmasters may obtain supplies, without cost, for limited distribution to occasional shippers from the Foreign Trade Division, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. 20233. Copies of the shipper's export declaration correction form for free distribution may also be obtained from the Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C. 20233, and from Collectors of Customs.

§ 251.5 Handling and disposal.

(a) When a shipper's export declaration or correction form is presented at a post office in accordance with 251.1, postmark it in the lower left corner and send it to:

Export Document Control, Foreign Trade Statistics Unit, Room 308, Building 66, Bureau of the Census, Jeffersonville, Ind. 47130.

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§ 252.1 Scope and applicability.

(a) The Bureau of International Commerce, Department of Commerce, controls all exportations, except for certain commodities and technical data licensed for export by other U.S. Government agencies, to all countries other than Canada (with the exception that validated export licenses are required for certain types of technical data to Canada). Mailers must inform themselves as to the regulations and comply with them in making any exportations of commodities and technical data as parcel post or postal union mail. A brief summary of the regulations as they apply to mail shipments is given in this part. Additional information is available from a Commerce Department bulletin entitled "Public Notice-Requirements for Exports by Mail" on bulletin boards in first-, second-, and third-class post offices and in classified stations and branches. Mailers desiring further information may make inquiry of the Exporters' Service Section, Bureau of International Commerce, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230 or of any field office of that department. A list of field offices is included in the above-mentioned public notice.

(b) Postal employees will not advise prospective mailers as to the type of license applicable to any commodities or to any destination, except that licenses are not required for shipments to Canada other than certain types of technical data. However, before accepting parcels employees should satisfy themselves that the mailers have complied with the regulations so far as they are applicable. A checklist for this purpose is printed opposite Chart 1 in the appendix to this subchapter.

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(a) Definition and use. A general license established by the Bureau of International Commerce is not a specific document, but is a general authorization covering exportations within its provisions, each general license being designated by symbol, such as G-DEST, GLV, GIFT, GUS, etc. A brief description of the general licenses usually used for mail shipments is given in this section. Further information can be obtained as set forth in § 252.1(a). When a prospective mailer finds that the contents of his package are properly exportable under a general license, unless it contains only printed matter or technical data (see

paragraph (e) of this section), he must mark the wrapper with the appropriate symbol and the words "Export license not required" before presenting it at the post office. The postal clerk may accept any package so marked unless the symbol is obviously being misused. The marking certifies that the mailer has complied with the regulations governing the use of the general license denoted by the symbol. No marking is required on wrappers of packages containing printed matter and technical data mailed under general licenses G-DEST, GTDP, GTDU, and GTDS.

(b) Restricted destinations. The Commerce Department imposes particular restrictions on exports to Rhodesia; to Cuba; to the Far Eastern Communist countries (Continental China, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and the Communistcontrolled area of Vietnam); to the following countries in the Eastern European Soviet bloc: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Germany (Soviet Zone including Soviet Sector of Berlin), Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Outer Mongolia, and U.S.S.R.; and to Hong Kong and Macao. Packages for these areas may not bear any general license except as follows:

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*For Cuba and the Far Eastern Communist countries, general license G-DEST may be used only for unclassified printed matter and developed motion picture film. For Rhodesia it may be used only for foods, clothing, medicines, and drugs, certain medical supplies, phonograph records, developed films, and printed matter considered to be of humanitarian or educational necessity.

General licenses GTDP and GTDS for technical data, requiring no symbol on the package, may be used for any of the restricted destinations named above; and GTDU, also requiring no symbol on the package, may be used for Rhodesia, Hong Kong, and Macao.

(c) General license gift. (1) This license covers gift packages mailed by or

on behalf of an individual sender to an individual addressee for the personal use of the latter or his family, or to a religious, charitable, or educational organization. The contents are limited to items normally sent as gifts, such as food, clothing (except military clothing to destinations named in paragraph (b) of this section), medicinals and drugs. When in doubt as to whether specific articles are exportable, consult the Commerce Department's "Public Notice" on post office bulletin boards, or inquire of the Bureau of International Commerce, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230, or any Commerce Department field office.

(2) The value of the contents of a package is limited to $100.

(3) Not more than one gift package may be mailed per week to one addressee under this general license.

(d) General licenses G-DEST and GLV. General license G-DEST may be used for any shipment, regardless of quantity, unless the Commerce Department's "Commodity Control List" indicates that a validated license is required. General license GLV may be used for certain types of small value shipments to which G-DEST does not apply. Except for Hong Kong and Macao to which certain commodities may be shipped up to $25 in value, general license GLV may not be used for destinations named in paragraph (b) of this section.

(e) Printed matter and technical data. Miscellaneous printed matter exported under general license G-DEST and technical data under licenses GTDP, GTDS, and GTDU need no general license symbol on the wrapper.

(f) General license gus. This license is used for shipments to U.S. Government personnel under prescribed conditions.

(g) General license baggage. This license is used to mail unaccompanied baggage of travellers, consisting of personal and household effects not intended for sale, under conditions and limitations established in Commerce Department export control regulations.

§ 252.3 Validated licenses.

(a) Definition and use. A "validated license" is an individual document issued by the Bureau of International Commerce, authorizing a specific exportation. Further information can be obtained as set forth in § 252.1(a). Before mailing a shipment under a validated license, the

sender must put the license number on the wrapper.

(b) Export declaration required. An export declaration (see part 251 of this chapter) is required for every shipment covered by a validated license, except technical data. However, partial shipments of technical data must comply with paragraph (c) of this section.

(c) Mailing under validated licenses. In making a shipment against a validated license, the mailer must surrender the license at the post office regardless of whether the total quantity shown on the license is mailed. However, if only a part of the licensed quantity is mailed, the mailer may, as an alternative, deposit the license with a collector of customs and surrender at the post office a shipper's export declaration (Commerce Form 7525-V) bearing the number of the license and an authorization dated and signed by the collector or by his representative for shipment of the goods shown on the declaration. This is in addition to the declarations required by Part 251 of this chapter and paragraph (b) of this section.

(d) Technical data licenses. Licenses issued by the Bureau of International Commerce for exportations of technical data are similar in form to the usual type of validated license, but no shipper's export declaration is required, except for partial shipments. (See paragraph (c) of this section.)

(e) Processing in post offices. (1) Entire shipments. The postal employee must see that the correct license number is shown on the wrapper of every package presented for mailing with a validated license. The number appears in the upper right portion of the license, adjacent to the validation stamp of the Bureau of International Commerce. Compare the contents as shown on the customs declaration (or as stated by the mailer in the case of shipments mailed as printed matter) with the commodities stated on the license and on the shipper's export declaration when required. If no discrepancy is noted and the package is mailable, accept it and take the license and export declaration (if required) from the mailer. Write "Completed" on the back of the license and apply postmark. Send the license to the Bureau of International Commerce, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230. Postmark the export declaration and dispose of it as instructed in § 251.5 of this chapter.

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