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IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN POST
A Cash on Delivery parcel will not be given up or be allowed to be opened by the addressee until the amount of the Trade Charge and any other charges due have been paid. But the addressee will see from the entry on the parcel the name and address of the sender, who must have sent the parcel in fulfilment of an Order.
No receipt for a Trade Charge will be given. When the Trade Charge has been collected, the Post Office undertakes the responsibility of the due remittance of the amount to the sender of the parcel; and, therefore, a Trade Charge, once collected, will in no circum- stances be refunded to the addressee.
Parcels on which trade charges are to be collected will, in other respects than those above specified, be treated like other parcels, .e., as regards insurance and compensation.
Insurance
The insurance service is not universal, but it ex- tends to most countries. The maximum which can be covered is $3,000, but in some countries lower limits are in force, as indicated in column 4 of the letter and parcel post tables.
The service is governed by international regula- tions which prescribe the manner in which insured packets must be made up, addressed, sealed and so on; and it is essential that these regulations should be complied with in order to avoid disputes about claims. or delays in transmission.
Three kinds of packets are recognised in the insur- ance service: insured letters, insured boxes, and insured parcels.
Insured letters and boxes cannot be sent by all the routes open to ordinary letters and may therefore take longer in transit. Insured boxes, for instance, are in all cases conveyed by surface route.
by surface route. As a rule, both insured letters and boxes travel more quickly than insured parcels.
GENERAL REGULATIONS
An insured article may not be addressed to initials or in pencil.