I'm mailing a package to France, and as always it amused me to check out the "prohibited" list. You are not allowed to send any of the following:
Okay, so much of that makes sense. But feeding bottles? If I didn't know better, I'd say that France must be extremely pro-breastfeeding. Measuring instruments marked in units not complying with French law? Maybe they take their metric system very seriously. Saccharine in tablets or packets? Quart jars are okay then? Interesting to have baby bottles, rulers, and sweeteners in the same category as ammunition and radioactive materials!Arms, ammunition. Cigarette lighters using butane gas. Feeding bottles. Funeral urns. Goods bearing false marks of French manufacture or origin. Imitation pearls containing lead salts and any articles of jewelry made with pearls of this type. Measuring instruments marked in units not complying with French law. Perishable infectious biological substances except as noted in Restrictions below. Perishable noninfectious biological substances except as noted under Restriction below. Radioactive materials. Saccharine in tablets or packets. Live plants and animals. Arms and weapons. Human remains.
I suppose you've thought of this, but it makes sense they don't want someone with false scales fleecing their people. Why the baby bottles and sweeteners, I don't know.
Actually, I hadn't thought of that. That makes sense. I was thinking they didn't want anything marked in inches or pounds.
Mom's reaction is correct. No yardsticks allowed. Napoleon was serious about the metric system. Something that is marked in metric units in order to defraud would be covered by normal "you can't import anything illegal" rules. You notice, for instance, that no mention of illegal drugs is made. These lists just include otherwise legal things (or things that could reasonably be expected to be legal, like yardsticks)that you can't send in.
Interesting how "Arms, ammunition" and "Arms and weapons" are separately and nonadjacently listed.
