HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE
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Parcels for Greece, Persia, Roumania and Russia must be packed in some material stronger than paper or cardboard. No compensation is paid for damage to articles in- sufficiently packed.
210. 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.
211.-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 obvious trace of violation. The seals must bear the impression of a private mark of the sender.
212.-As to the packing and sealing of insured parcels, see Rule 227.
DELIVERY OF PARCELS
213.-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.
214. 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). 215.—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
216.--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. (Sée Rule 105.)
217. A parcel which is returned or re-directed from one country to another is charged the full postage.
COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE
218.--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 Guiana
BRITISH POSSESSIONS
Cyprus Falkland Islands Gambia
India
Labuan
Lagos
Gibraltar
Gold Coast Colony
Lecward Islands Mauritius
Grenada
Newfoundland North Borneo St. Helena St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Seychelles Sierra Leone South Australia Tobago Trinidad
British Honduras
Ceylon
Argentine Republic
Austria-Hungary
Azores
Belgium
Beyrout
Bosnia
Bulgaria
Chili
Cameroons
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Colombia, Republic of French Possessions
Constantinople
Congo Free State
Costa Rica
Danish West Indies
Denmark
Dutch Possessions Egypt France
Luxemburg
Germany
Madeira
German Possessions Greece
Norway
Portugal
Herzegovina
Roumania
Holland
Salvador
Italy
Japan Liberia
Spain Sweden Switzerland Tangier Tripoli Tunis
Samoa (vià Germany) Turkey
Servia Smyrna
Uruguay
219. The compensation paid will in no case exceed £1. In the case of parcels becoming wet or damaged while under the control of the Post Offices of the above mentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries the Postmaster General will endeavour to obtain compensation for the senders under similar regulations. But in the Parcel Post with France and some other countries the compensation payable in the case of parcels no weighing more than 7 b. is limited to 15 francs.
220.--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. 221.-The compensation payable will be in accordance with the Rules contained in Rule 95, and with the General Regulations of the local Parcel Post, so far as these are applicable
INSURANCE OF PARCELS
222.—Insurance of Parcels may be effected between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:
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