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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

.careful and substantial packing is necessary for such parcels than for local parcels, owing to the much greater distance over which, as a rule, the former have to be conveyed, the very different conditions of transit, and the influences of climate. This is a consideration which must necessarily be taken into account in dealing with claims for compensation. Parcels for Greece, Persia, Roumania and Russia must be packed in some material stronger than paper or cardboard.

210.-For parcels containing liquids and substances which easily liquefy the following method should be adopted-Two receptacles should be used, and between the inner one, which contains the liquid, and the outer one, which should be of wood or metal, space should be left all round, and this space should be filled with bran sawdust, or other absorbent material.

211. Further, a parcel for a Foreign Country must be so sealed by the sender that it cannot be opened without breaking the seals or leaving an obvious trace of violation. The seals must bear the impression of a private mark of the sender.

212.-As to the packing and sealing of insured parcels, see Rule 227.

DELIVERY OF PARCELS

213.-In Hongkong parcels are not, like letters, delivered at the residences of the addressees. Notice of the arrival of a parcel is sent to the addressee, who must then claim the parcel at the Post Office where it is lying.

214. In Belgium, France and Spain parcels are delivered by the Railway Com- panies and not by the Post Office, and parcels intended to be called for should be addressed, not to a Poste Restante in those countries, but to a Railway Station (en gare). 215. In the United States parcels are not in all cases delivered at the houses of the recipients. They will, however, be delivered at all places within the delivery of any Express Company of the United States, and when they are not delivered, a notice of their arrival will be sent to the addressees, who must then arrange to obtain them .at the point where they are lying.

RE-DIRECTION AND RETURN OF PARCELS

216.—Parcels arriving in this Colony and re-directed from one address to another in the Colony are treated and charged under the regulations which govern the treatment and charge of re-directed parcels by the Local Parcel Post. (See Rule 105.)

217. A parcel which is returned or re-directed from one country to another is charged the full postage.

COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE

218. The Postmaster-General will (not in consequence of any legal liability, but voluntarily, as an act of grace) give compensation for the loss or damage of uninsured parcels sent by Parcels Post between Hongkong and the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries, when such loss or damage takes place while the parcels are in his custody, and does not arise from any fault or neglect of the senders or the nature of the contents :-

Ascension Bahamas Barbados

BRITISH POSSESSIONS

Falkland Islands Gambia Gibraltar

Leeward Islands Mauritius Newfoundland North Borneo St. Helena

Seychelles Sierra Leone South Australia Tobago Trinidad

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British Guiana British Honduras

Ceylon Cyprus

Argentine Republic Austria-Hungary

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Azores Belgium Beyrout Bosnia Bulgaria Cameroons

Chili

Colombia, Republic of

Constantinople

Gold Coast Colony Grenada Labuan Lagos

St. Lucia St. Vincent

FOREIGN Countries

Congo Free State

Costa Rica

Danish West Indies

Denmark

Dutch Possessions

Egypt

France

French Possessions Germany

German Possessions Greece

Herzegovina Holland Italy

Japan

Liberia

Luxemburg

Madeira

Norway

Portugal

Roumania

Salvador

Samoa (vià Germany Servia Smyrna Spain Sweden Switzerland

Tangier

Tripoli

Tunis

Turkey

Uruguay

219.--The compensation paid will in no case exceed £1. In the case of parcels becoming wet or damaged while under the control of the Post Offices of the above mentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries the Postmaster General will endeavour to obtain compensation for the senders under similar regulations. But in the Parcel Post with