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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
143.-If a parcel tendered for insurance does not, in the opinion of the officer to whom it is tendered, fulfil the foregoing conditions as to packing and sealing, it is his duty to refuse to insure it; but the onus of properly packing and fastening the parcel lies upon the sender; and the Post Office assumes no liability for loss or damage arising from defects of packing or fastening, which may not be observed at the time of posting.
144. Unless parcels containing coin, watches, jewellery, or any article of gold or silver are insured for at least part of their value they cannot be sent by Parcel Post. When an insured parcel is redirected from one country to another, a fresh insurance fee becomes payable for each such transmission. If this fee is not prepaid, it is collected from the addressee on delivery. Insured parcels can only be redirected to countries which have adopted the insurance system.
145.-Compensation for a parcel lost or damaged in the Post will not exceed the amount of the actual loss or damag e,and will not be paid at all for a parcel conta ining any prohibited article or for any parcel which has been delivered without external trace of injury and has been accepted without remark by the addressee; nor does it follow that compensation will be given when loss or damage arises from tempest, shipwreck, earth- quake, war, or other causes beyond control. No claim for compensation will be admitted if made more than a year after the parcel was posted.
146.--No legal liability to give compensation in respect of any parcel for which an in- surance 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.
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147.----Parcels must be posted before 3 p.m., on the working-day next before the depar- ture of the packet. A receipt will be given for each. A declaration of contents and value is required except for places the names of which are printed in italics. The declaration form is supplied free. Any parcel, even though sealed, is liable to be opened for examination. Dangerous or perishable goods, opium, articles likely to injure the mails, liquids (unless securely packed), and fragile packages are prohibited. parcel must exceed $1,200 in value. A parcel may contain a letter to the same address as that of the parcel itself (except in cases where enclosure of letters is pro- hibited) or another parcel to that address, but no other enclosure. Declaration of contents inust be complete and accurate. Everything in the parcel should be entered. False declaration exposes the parcel to the risk of confiscation.
148.-A charge at the full rate of postage originally payable is made for every redirec- tion of a parcel, unless the original address and the corrected address are in a delivery from the same Post Office, and the parcel is not at the time of redirection lying at a Returned Letter Office. In such cases no additional charge is made for redirection. Parcels, like other postal packets, can only be redirected by the Department upon receipt of an authority duly signed by the person to whom they are addressed. Persons desiring parcels to be redirected, as well as other postal packets, should fill up two redirection notices, one for parcels and one for other postal packets. If the ordinary request for the redirection of letters be alone filled up, parcels will not be forwarded. All parcels are liable to charge for redirection, Government parcels and parcels for soldiers and sailors not excepted.
149.-If a parcel which cannot be delivered bears on the cover the name and address of the sender, it is retained at the General Post Office, and a printed notice is sent thence to him by post, informing him that the parcel (if not claimed in the meantime by the addressee) will be given up to him or to any person whom he may direct to call for it at the office, or will be returned to him by post, or will be redirected to a fresh address. If the sender wishes to have the parcel redirected, or sent back to him by post, he must return the printed notice with the necessary instructions, and with stamps to the amount of a fresh postage at the full rate and of any other charges to which the parcel may be liable. The parcel is then forwarded to him prepaid by stamps affixed thereto. If no reply is received within six weeks after the date of the notice, or if the Post Master has reason to believe that application is made for the parcel by a person who is neither the sender nor the addressee, or if the sender fails to pay the charges due on it, the parcel is sent to the Returned Letter Office. For re-issue by post from the Returned Letter Office a second rate of postage is invariably charged. If a parcel which cannot be delivered does not bear on the cover the name and address of the sender, it is sent to the Returned Letter Office, where it is opened and examined. If upon such examination the name and address of the sender are as- certained, a printed notice is sent to him, and the parcel is treated in the same manner as a parcel upon the cover of which the name and address of the sender appears. If the name and address of the sender cannot be ascertained from the examination of
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