Intriguing International Mail

I'm finding browsing the www.usps.com site quite entertaining! Specficially, the international mail restrictions are quite a hoot.

• Israel - No used beehives.
• Italy - No clocks or clock supplies. No live bees. (Did they talk to the Israelis about the bee thing?)
• Kenya - Articles bearing Boy Scout or Girl Scout insignia must have authorization of the Kenya Boy Scout or Girl Guide Commissioner.
• North Korea - All merchandise is prohibited. Mail should be addressed to Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
• South Korea - No salt. (Why not? Korean food seems salty enough to me)
• Libya - No tea, salt, or tobacco.
• Madagascar - No Saccharine (I agree, that stuff is nasty tasting anyhow). Tobacco sauce (Praiss). (time to google 'praiss' up!)
• Mali - Weights and measures not of the metric system.
• New Caledonia - Weights and measures not of the decimal system. (you think they got a feud with Mali?)
• Nicaragua - No Communist material or literature. (insert joke about Democrats or Michael Moore here)
• Nigeria - No coins; banknotes; currency notes, except from a bank; and addressed to a bank in Nigeria. (well, that's good. I was worried about not getting my 10% of that $30M sent to me from the Imperial Ministry of Petroleum Nigerian Directorate as promised via e-mail. Looks like I just have to send my bank account info to a Nigerian bank and all is well)
• St. Lucia - No shaving brushes made in Japan. (pfff. Japan? Howsabout China! I doubt the Chinese have long since dominated the world shaving brush market anyway.)