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flap at distances not more than three inches apart. The address of such parcels must be written on their actual covering.
227.-- If a parcel tendered for insurance does not, in the opinion of the, officer to whom it is tendered, fulfil the foregoing conditions as to packing and sealing it is his duty to refuse to insure it; but the onus of properly packing and fastening the parcel lies upon the sender, and the Post Office assumes no liability for loss or damage arising from defects of packing or fastening which may not be observed at the time of posting.
228.-Unless parcels containing coin, watches, jewellery, any article of gold or sil- ver, or any article of value, are insured for at least part of their value, they cannot be sent by Parcel Post to the places mentioned in Rule 220. Any such parcel posted unin- sured will generally be returned to the sender. A compulsory registration fee of 20 cents will be collected on the delivery of every uninsured parcel received from the places abovementioned and found to contain coin, watches, jewellery, any article of gold or silver, or any article of value.
229.-When an insured parcel is re-directed from one country to another a fresh insurance fee becomes payable for each transmission. If this fee is not prepaid it is collected from the addressee on delivery. Insured parcels can only be re-directed to countries which have adopted the insurance system.
230.-Compensation for a parcel lost or damaged in the Post will not exceed the amount of the actual loss or damage, and no compensation at all will be paid for a parcel containing any prohibited article, or for a parcel which has been delivered with- out external trace of injury and has been accepted without remarks by the addressee; nor does it follow as a matter of course that compensation will be given when loss or damage arises from tempest, shipwreck, earthquake, war, or other causes beyond control. No claim for compensation will be admitted if made more than a year after the parcel was posted. The sender has the first claim to any compensation which may be payable, but he may waive his claim in favour of the addressee.
231.-No legal liability to give compensation in respect of any parcel for which an insurance fee has been paid attaches to the Postmaster-General, either personally or in his official capacity. The final decision upon all questions of compensation rests with the Postal Administration of the country in which the loss or damage has taken place.
232. The insurance system also applies to parcels from the places mentioned in Rule 220, but parcels to or from other places abroad cannot be insured.
233.-Any insurance effected contrary to the foregoing Regulations is invalid.
GENERAL.
234.-Where not repugnant to the foregoing Rules, the General Regulations of the Local Parcel Post apply to Foreign Parcels.
235.-Parcels must be posted before 3 p.m. on the working day next before the departure of the packet.
236.-Parcels Post.-Rates of Postage, &c.:-
DESTINATION
· ROUTE
OP TRANSMISSION
RATES OF POSTAGE ON PARCELS NOT EXCEEDING'
1 11.2 1.3 16.4 1.5 m.
LIMIT OF
LIMIT OF SIZE
PROHIBITED CONTENTS
* c. c.
Hongkong, China & Sium
Direct
10 15 20, 25 30
2 ft. x1 ft.,
x) ft.
Japan and Formosa.
Do.
20
40, 60 80: 1.00
1
Do.
United Kingdom.. via Gibraltar
Aden
3
50 50 1.00 1.00 120
via Calcutta
25
50 75 1.00 1.25 120
Argentine Republic
via London
1.50 1.50 1.50 2.50 2.50
!
Ascension
Do.
85 951 851.70 1.70 5,00
|
3 ft. 6 in. long, or 6 ft. in greatest lengthand girth combined
· DO..
and not
Opium. Letters are prohi
bited in Hongkong and China, Letters, opiumı
(Tbacco,except for personal use, copyright books,
smaller than 3 Opium. in. x 2 in. x 2 in.
2 ft. in length or
4 ft. in length and girth com- bined
Same as United >
Kingdom
Letters, vine plants, gold,
silver, Jewellery.
Specie, ostrich feathers,
[The maximum weight of parcels is 11 1b. Rates are only given above for parcels up to 5 lb., abbreviation rendered necessary through want of space.]
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