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careful and substantial packing is necessary for such parcels than for local parcels, owing to the much greater distance over which, as a rule, the former have to be conveyed, the very different conditions of transit, and the influences of climate. This is a consideration. which must necessarily be taken into account in dealing with claims for compensation. Parcels for Greece, Persia, Roumania and Russia must be packed in some material stronger than paper or cardboard.
211.-For parcels containing liquids and substances which easily liquefy the following method should be adopted-Two receptacles should be used, and between the inner one, which contains the liquid, and the outer one, which should be of wood or metal, space should be left all round, and this space should be filled with bran, sawdust, or other absorbent material.
212. Further, a parcel for a Foreign Country must be so sealed by the sender that it cannot be opened without breaking the seals or leaving an obvous trace of violation. The seals must bear the impression of a private mark of the sender.
213. As to the packing and sealing of insured parcels, see Rule 228.
DELIVERY OF PARCELS.
214.-In Hongkong parcels are not, like letters, delivered at the residences of the addressees. Notice of the arrival of a parcel is sent to the addressee, who must then claim the parcel at the Post Office where it is lying.
215.-In Belgium, France and Spain parcels are delivered by the Railway Com- panies and not by the Post Office, and parcels intended to be called for should be addressed, not to a Poste Restante in those countries, but to a Railway Station (en gare) 216. In the United States parcels are not in all cases delivered at the houses of the recipients. They will, however, be delivered at all places within the delivery of any Express Company of the United States, and when they are not delivered, a notice of their arrival will be sent to the addressees, who must then arrange to obtain them at the point where they are lying.
RE-DIRECTION AND RETURN OF PARCELS.
217.--Parcels arriving in this Colony and re-directed from one address to another in the Colony are treated and charged under the regulations which govern the treatment and charge of re-directed parcels by the Local Parcel Post. (See Rule 106.)
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218. A parcel which is returned or re-directed from one country to another is charged the full postage.
COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE.
219.-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 Babamas
Barbados
British Guiana
British Honduras
Ceylon
Cyprus
Argentine Republic
Austria-Hungary
Azores
Belgium
Beyrout
Bosnia
BRITISH POSSESSIONS,
Falkland Islands Gambia
Gibraltar
Gold Coast Colony
Grenada
Labuan
Lagos
FOREIGN
Congo Free State
Costa Rica
Danish West Indies
Denmark
Dutch Possessions
Leeward Islands Mauritius Newfoundland North Borneo St. Helena
St. Lucia St. Vincent COUNTRIES.
Herzegovina Holland Italy
Japan
Liberia
Luxemburg
Egypt
Bulgaria
France
Madeira
Cameroons
French Possessions
Norway
Chili
Germany
Portugal
Colombia, Republic of
German Possessions
Roumania
Constantinople
Greece
Salvador
220.-The compensation paid will in no case exceed $10.
Seychelles Sierra Leone South Australia Tobago Trinidad
Samoa (via Germany Servia Smyrna Spain Sweden Switzerland Tangier Tripoli
Tunis Turkey Uruguay
The compensation
payable in the case of parcels not weighing more than 7 b. is limited to $5.