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It may not bear any erasure or correction in the address at the time of posting.
CERTIFICATE OF POSTING
The certificate of posting which is given for an insured packet shows the amount for which the letter, box or parcel is insured, and the sender should see that the amount is correctly stated.
SEALS
All seals on an insured letter, box or parcel must be of the same kind of wax (or lead or steel in the case of parcels), and must bear distinct impressions of the same private device. A coin may not be used for sealing; and the device may not consist merely of straight, crossed, or curved lines which could readily be imitated.
If an article tendered for insurance does not, in the opinion of the officer of the Post Office to whom it is tendered, fulfil the prescribed conditions as to pack- ing and sealing, it is his duty to refuse to insure it. Nevertheless, the onus of properly enclosing, packing, and sealing the packet lies upon the sender; and the Post Office assumes no liability for loss arising from defects which may not be observed at the time of posting.
INSURED
VALUE
The amount for which an article is insured must be written by the sender both in words and in figures, at the top of the address side of the cover, thus: Insured for dollars one hundred, $100. In the case of a parcel, the amount must also be entered in the appro- priate space on the despatch note, if one is used. No alteration or erasure of the inscription on the letter, box or parcel or on the despatch note is allowed. If the amount is entered on the despatch note in the wrong place, a fresh despatch note must be prepared.
No letter, box or parcel can be insured for more than the actual value of the contents and packing, or for more than the sum entered in the letter and parcel post tables against the name of the country to which it is addressed; but it may be insured for part of its value, and a letter, box or parcel of which the contents have no pecuniary value may be insured for a nominal sum in order to obtain the safeguards of the system. An insured letter containing documents which are of
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