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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE.
217.-The Postmaster-General will (not in consequence of any legal liability, but voluntarily, as an act of grace) give compensation for the loss or damage of uninsured parcels sent by Parcels Post between Hongkong and the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries, when such loss or damage takes place while the parcels are in his custody, and does not arise from any fault or neglect of the senders or the nature of the contents:-
Ascension Bahamas Barbados
BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Falkland Islands Gambia
Gibraltar
Leeward Islands Mauritius Newfoundland North Borneo St. Helena
Seychelles Sierra Leone South Australia Tobago Trinidad
EFTE
British Guiana British Honduras
Ceylon Cyprus
Argentine Republic
Austria-Hungary
Azores
Belgium
Beyrout
Bosnia
Gold Coast Colony Grenada Labuan Lagos
St. Lucia St. Vincent
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
Congo Free State Costa Rica
Danish West Indies Denmark
Dutch Possessions
Egypt
Bulgaria
France
Cameroons
Chili
French Possessions Germany
Colombia, Republic of
German Possessions Greece
Herzegovina Holland Italy
Japan
Liberia
Luxemburg
Madeira
Norway
Portugal
Roumania
Salvador
Samoa (viå Germany) Servia Smyrna Spain Sweden Switzerland
Tangier
Tripoli
Tunis
Turkey
Uruguay
Constantinople
218.--The compensation paid will in no case exceed $10.00. The compensation payable in the case of parcels not weighing more than 7 lb. is limited to $5.00.
219.-No. compensation is payable for the loss or damage of an uninsured parcel sent to or from any British possession or Foreign country other than those mentioned above.
The compensation payable will be in accordance with the Rules contained in Rule 97, and with the General Regulations of the local Parcel Post, so far as these are applicable.
As regards insured parcels see next Rules.
INSURANCE OF PARCELS.
220.—Parcels for the United Kingdom and the undermentioned Foreign Countries and British Possessions can be insured :—
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
FOREIGN COUNTRIES (via London)
$120 | $200
FEE PAYABLE TO BECURB CompExBATION UP TO
$240 | $360 | $400 ⋅ $489 | $500
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$600 $720 8840 $960 (81,080| $1,200
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C.
V.
C.
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C.
C.
Algeria and Corsica
Austria Hungary
30
50
80
1.10
1.40 1.70 2.00 2.30 2.60 2.90
Azores and Madežda Belgiumi
Beyrouth
Bosnia Herzegovina
Cameroons
Chili
Constantinople
Danish West Indies Denmark
25
1
40
65
90
1.15
1.40 1.05 1.90 2.16 2.40
30
1
35
25
! 1
60
96
1.30
40
90 1.00
70
1
181
1.65
2.00
2.35 2.70 3.05 9.40
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35
50
80
1.10
1.40 1.70 2.00
2.30 2.60
2.90
France
30
1
Germany
Holland.
Italy (via France) §
Do. (via Belgium) §.
Luxemburg
Montenegro
Norway
Portugal
Roumania.
Russia (including Finland).
Servia
Smyrna
Sweden
Switzerland (via France).
Do. (via Belgium)
32|3533 |
40
65
90
1.15 1.40 1.65 1.90 2.15 .40
40
70
30
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60
1.00
40
60 70 80
1.00 1.10
1.00
40
65
90
1.15
1.40
1.65
1.90 2.15 2.40
1 1
1
05
30
50
60
1
30
1
1
40
65
90
1.15 1.40 1.65 1.90 2.15 2.40
30
30
50 80
1.10
1.40 1.70 2.00 2.30 2.60 2.90
Tunis
30
Turkey (Aust'an Post Offices)||
30
T
1
1.30
1.65
2.00 2.35
2.70 3.05 3.40
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Insurance confined to parcels for the towns of Cameroon and Victoria. No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcels containing liquids, || Adrianople, Caifa, (Haifo), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Darrianelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipoli, Ineboli, Jaffa, Janina, Jerusalem:, Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retimo, Rhodes, Salonica, Sanisoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Quaranta, Scio, Trebizond, Valona, Vathi.
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