Japan. Jibouti. Lagos.
Leeward Islands (Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, and the Virgin Islands). Luxemburg Madagascar (Antananarivo, Diego Suarez, Majunga, Ste. Marie de Madagas- Tamatave only).
car,
Madeira.
Malta.
Martinique. Mayotte.
Morocco (Casablanca, Maza- gan, Mogador, Saffi, and Tangier only).
New Caledonia.
Newfoundland.
Niger.
HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Norway. Nossi Bé. Portugal. Portuguese East Africa.
Chinde. Inhambane, Lo- renzo Marques, Mozam- bique and Quilimane only. Portuguese West Africa (Benguela, Loanda, Mos- samedes Bolama and St. Thomé only).
Réunion. Roumania. Russia. St. Helena.
Sénégal (Daker, Goree, Ru- fisque, St. Louis, Thyes, and Tivaouane only)
Servia.
Spain (including the Ba-
learic Islands).
Straits Settlements
Sweden. Switzerland. Tonquin. Trinidad.
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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, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Qua- ranta, Scutar d'Albanie, Smyrna, Trebizond Valo- na, Vathy only. United Kingdom.
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:
Francs
£
$
Sets. i Francs
£
300 or
12 Or
120 fee
25
1,800
or 72
or
S 720
fee $1.50
600 900 1,200
24
240
""
50
2,100
84
840
1.75
J
""
31
36
360
75
2,400
96
960
2.00
"?
51
48
480
27
17
1,500
60
600
1.00 1.25
""
"
2,700 3,000 120
108
11
71
1,080
2.25
11
"
"
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.
(7) The sender of a letter containing insured articles receives gratis at the time
of posting a summary receipt for his letter.
(h) 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.
(7) An application for an indennity for loss of an insured letter is only enter
tained if made within a year of the posting of the insured letter. (j) Letters containing insured articles can only be accepted if enclosed in a strong envelope fastened by means of seals in fine wax, with spaces be- tween, reproducing a private mark, and aflixed in sufficient number to hold down all the folds of the envelope. The employment of envelopes with coloured borders is forbidden.
(4) The condition of every letter must be such that its contents cannot be got
at without external and visible damage to the envelope or the seals. (7) Space must be left between the postage stamps used for the prepayment, so that they cannot serve to hide injuries to the envelope. They must not be folded over the two sides of the envelope so as to cover the edge. (m) Letters containing insured articles addressed to initials or directed in
pencil are not accepted.
(n) The amount of the value insured must be expressed in francs and centimes, and must be written by the sender on the cover of the packet in words and in figures, without erasure or correction, even if certified.