Danish West Indies (St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix). Denmark (including the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland). § Egypt.
Falkland Islands. France.
French Congo (Libreville
and Loango only).
French Guiana.
French Guinea.
(Lorenzo Marques, Mo- zambique, and Quilimane only).
Gaboon.
Gambia.
Germany.
German East Africa.
Guadeloupe.
Herzegovina.
Holland.
India.
Italian East Africa (Assab
and Massowah only).
Italy.
Ivory Coast.
Jamaica.
Japan.
HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Jibouti. Lagos.
Leeward Islands (Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat,
Nevis, St. Kitts, and the Virgin Islands). Luxemburg. Madagascar (Antananarivo, Diégo Suarez, Majunga, Ste. Marie de Madagas- car, Tamatave only). Madeira.
Malta.
Martinique. Mayotte.
Morocco (Casablanca, Maza- gan, Mogador, Saffi, and Tangier only).
New Caledonia.
Newfoundland.
Norway.
Nossi Bé.
Portugal.
Portuguese East Africa Portuguese West
West Africa (Benguela, Loanda, Mos- samedes, Bolama and St. Thomé only). Réunion.
Roumania.
Russia.
St. Helena.
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Senegal (Daker, Goree, Ru- fisque, St. Louis, Thyes, and Tivaouane only). Servia.
Spain (including the Ba-
learic Islands).
Straits Settlements. Sweden.
Switzerland.
Tonquin.
Trinidad.
Tripoli (Italian Post Office). Tunis.
Turkey (Beyrout, Caifa or Haifa Cavalla, Chios (Scio), Constantinople, Dardanelles, Dedeagatch (Dedeagh), Durazzo, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Kerassonde (Keresun), Mytilene, Pre- vesa, Rhodes, Salónica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Qua- ranta, Scutari d'Albanie, Smyrna, Trebizond, Valo- na, Vathy only).
As all the routes available for ordinary letters are not available for insured letters, the latter may be longer in transit than the former.
(a) The maximum amount for which a letter packet may be insured is $1,200. (b) The rates of insurance are :
$120
240
360
480
600
..fee 25 cents.
50
""
""
75
>
""
$1.00 1.25
8720
.....fee $1.50
840
1.75
""
960
2.00
""
1,080
2.25
""
1,200
2.50
(c) The fee for insurance is in addition to postage and fee for registration. (d) Insurance to an amount greater than the real value of the contents of a
letter is prohibited.
(e) The infringement of the above rule with intent to defraud deprives the
sender of any right to compensation.
(ƒ) It is forbidden to enclose in insured letters:-(1) Coin; (2) Articles subject to Customs' duty, except paper money; (3) Articles of gold or silver, precious stones, jewellery, and other articles of a similar nature.
() The sender of a letter containing insured articles receives gratis at the time
of posting a summary receipt for his letter.
(1) The sender of a letter containing insured articles can have sent to him an acknowledgment of the delivery of the packet to the addressee, or can, subsequent to posting of a packet, ask for information as to its disposal, under the same conditions as for registered articles.
(1) An application for an indemnity for loss of an insured letter is only enter-
tained if made within a year of the posting of the insured letter. (5) Letters containing insured articles can only be accepted if enclosed in a
strong envelope fastened by means of seals in line wax, with spaces be- tween, reproducing a private mark, and affixed in sufficient number to hold down all the folds of the envelope. The employment of envelopes with coloured borders is forbidden.
The amount to be insured is limited to 501. § Letters for places in the Soudan can be insured as far as Wady Halta or Buakim only. || Bagamoyo Dar-es-salain, Kilwa, Lindi, Mitcindami, Mohorro, Pangani, Saunadai, and Tanga,
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