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 2740 PARCEL POST AGREEMENT-SIERRA LEONE. February 27. 1930. April 16, 1930. Nondelivery. XVI. NONDELIVERY neturn to sender. 1. In the absence of a request by the sender to the contrary a. parcel which can not be delivered shall be returned to the sender
 * d postage re- without previous notification. New ~a~e maY' be collected from

q. the sender and retained by the AdmirustratIOn making the collection. allR~ests from sender 2. The sender of a parcel may request, at the time of mailing, ow• that, if the parcel can not be delivered as addressed it shall he either (a) treated as abandoned, or (b) tendered for delivery at a second address in the country of destination. No other alternative is admissible. If the sender avails himEelf of this facility, his request must appear on the parcel or on a Dispatch Note or Customs Declaration attached to or stuck on the parcel and must be in Forms. conformity with or analogous to one of the following forms: "If not dellverable as addressed___________________ 'Abandon'." " If not deliverable as addressed__________________ 'Deliver to ________ •• " e ~ re~g 3. Except as otherwise provided, undeliverable parcels will be un ver parce. returned to the senders at the expiration of thirty days from the date of receipt at the post office of ori~al destinatIOn in the United States of Ariierica and at the expiratIon of twenty-ei~!lt days from the date of receipt at the post office of original destmation in the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectora.te. Parcels held at the disposal of a second addressee in the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate may be held for an additional seven days. Refused parcels will be returned at once from both countries. Each returned parcel shall be marked to show the reason for nondelivery. llaTarmstroBot (talk)et:!ior~iTarmstroBot (talk) 4. Articles liable to deterioration or corruption, and these only, may, however, be sold immediately even on the outward or return journey, without previous notice or judicial formality for the benefit of the light party. If for any reason a sale is impossible, the spoilt or worthless articles shall be destroyed. The sale or destruction shall be recorded and a report made to the Administration of origin. . . f ~o~ 5. marked 5. Undeliverable ,Parcels which the sender has marked "Abandon" mqy be sold at auctIon at the expiration of thirty days in the United States of America, and at the expiration of twenty-eight days in the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate. Customs charges. XVII. CUSTOMS CHARGES TO BE CANCELLED cefJ:;t:' par- Provided the formaEties prescribed by the Customs authorities concerned a1·e fulfilled, the customs charges, properly so-called, on parcels destroyed, abandoned by the sender, sent back to the country of origin, or redirected to another country shall be cancelled both in the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate and in the United States of America. Retrarumllsslon. Provisions (or. Recept6Clea. BlIP tv be pro..lded. etc. XVIII. RETRANSMISSION Missent parcels shall be forwarded to their destinations by the most direct route at the disposal of the reforwarding Administration but must not be marked with the customs or other charges by the reforwarding Adininistration. ' XIX. RECEPTACLES Each Administration shall provide the bags necessary for the dispatch of its parcels. The bags shall be returneg empty to the country of origin by the next Mail. E.npty bags shall be made up in bundles of ten (nine bags enclosed in one) and the total number of such bags shall be advised on the parcel bill.