HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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191.--When an insured parcel is re-directed from one country to another a fresh insurance fee becomes payable for each transmission. If this fee is not prepaid it is collected from the addressee on delivery. Insured parcels can only be re-directed to countries which have adopted the insurance system.
192.-Compensation for a parcel lost or damaged in the Post will not exceed the amount of the actual loss or damage, and no compensation at all will be paid for a parcel containing any prohibited article, or for a parcel which has been delivered with- out external trace of injury and has been accepted without remarks by the addressee; nor does it follow as a matter of course that compensation will be given when loss or damage arises from tempest, shipwreck, earthquake, war, or other causes beyond control. No claim for compensation will be admitted if made more than a year after the parcel was posted. The sender has the first claim to any compensation which may be payable, but he may waive his claim in favour of the addressee.
193.—No legal liability to give compensation in respect of any parcel for which an insurance fee has been paid attaches to the Postmaster General, either personally or in his official capacity. The final decision upon all questions of compensation rests with the Postal Administration of the country in which the loss or damage has taken place. 194. The insurance system also applies to parcels from the places mentioned in Rule 183, but parcels to or from other places abroad cannot be insured.
195. Any insurance effected contrary to the foregoing Regulations is invalid.
"CASH ON DELIVERY" SERVICE
I. Nature of the System
196.-The Postmaster-General undertakes, on certain conditions, to collect from the addressee the value of an article sent by post and to remit it to the sender by Money Order or Postal Order.
(a) The Service applies to parcels (uninsured or insured) only sent from Hong- kong to the United Kingdom, Straits Settlements and Gibraltar and mice versa.
(b) The amount to be collected under the C. O. D. System is called the "Trade
Charge."
(c) The Trade Charge on any parcel may not exceed £20.
(d) A special fee of 10 cents is charged on every parcel bearing a Trade Charge posted in the Colony; and, in addition, a fee will be charged in the United Kingdom for the delivery service.
The delivery fees to be charged in the United Kingdom on such parcels when
received from Hongkong are as follows:-
When the Trade Charge does not exceed £ 5...
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s. d.
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does exceed £ 5 but not £10...
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£10 £15
0 6 £15... 0 9 £20... 1 0
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The fee due to the office of posting must be paid with the other postal charges; but the amount of the fee due to the office of delivery will be deducted, with the commission on the Money Order or Postal Order by which the remittance is made, from the amount paid by the addressee.
(e) The sender of a parcel on which a Trade Charge is to be collected will be required to sign a declaration that the parcel is sent in fulfilment of an order from the addressee.
(ƒ) The sender may arrange under certain conditions for the Trade Charge on a parcel to be reduced or cancelled. For this purpose the Cer- tificate of Posting must be produced at the office at which the packet was posted, where full information can be obtained. A fee of 20 cents will be charged in connection with applications for reducing or can- celling a Trade Charge.
II. Posting
1. Parcels on which Trade Charges are to be collected are accepted at the General Post Office, Hongkong, only.