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Customs Form 3431
Treasury Department
August 1958

NOTICE TO IMPORTER OF SHIPMENT
HELD FOR INVOICE

Port of San Francisco, Calif.

Date May 20, 1960

Mr. David Green

633 W. Terrace

Fresno, Calif.

A mail shipment consisting of 1 packages containing projector
adressed to you by George Green, Hamburg, Germany
has been delivered to this office for customs clearance without an invoice. We
regret that customs clearance must be delayed, but without an invoice we are
unable to determine the proper amount of duties or taxes due on this shipment.
As soom as you furnish the invoice, we will process your shipment promptly.
Please return this notice with the invoice.

We will be able to give you better service on future shipments if you will
follow these suggestions:

1. When placing an order with a concern in a foreign country, always
request that an invoice in English accompany the merchandise when
it is shipped.

2. If the shipment will consist of more than one parcel as the foreign
shipper to mark each parcel plainly and conspicuosly, near the ad-
dress label, with the parcel number and the total number of parcels
in the shipment. Also, it would help to expedite delivery if a copy
of the invoice is placed inside each parcel or is put into an en-
velope securely attached to the outside of each parcel. (For ship-
ments of 4 parcels or less, this should not be a burden on the
shipper.) It frequently happens that all packages of a shipment do
not arrive at the same time. If we have an invoice for the packages
received, it generally would not be necessary to hold these packages
until the remainder of the shipment arrives. It is important, of
course, to have the shipper state the contents and value of each
parcel on each copy of the invoice.

3. If you know the United States tarriff paragraph number an the rate
of duty applicable to the merchandise at the time you place an order, as the
foreign shipper to show this information on the invoice.

We will be glad to furnish any other information you may desire to help
expedite customs clearance of your mail importations. Please address your
request -and return this form - to:

U.S. CUSTOMS MAIL DIVISION
RINCON ANNEX POST OFFICE
MISSION AT STUART STREETS
SAN FRANCISCO 19, CALIFORNIA

(Put any remarks on other side of this form)

Do not call in person. Parcel
will be delivered by mail.