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 2848 Exchange offices. Packing. Registration. PARCEL POST CONVENTION-CUBA. JULY 24, 1930. 3. Exchanges under this Convention from any place in either country to any place in the other shall be effected through the post offices of both countries already designated as exchange post offices, or through such others as may be hereafter agreed upon, under such regulations relative to the details of the exchange as may be mutually determined to be essential to the security and expedition of the mails and the protection of the customs revenues. 4. Although articles admitted under this Convention will be trans- nutted as aforesaid between the exchange offices, they should be so carefully packed as to be safely transmitted in the open mails of either country, both in going to the exchange office in the country of origin and to the office of address in the country of destination. ARTICLE IX Fee. 1. The sender of a parcel may have the same registered by paying in addition to the postage the registry fee fixed by the country of origin. m:n1s~ress require- 2. Registered parcels shall not be addressed to initials or in pencil, but th{: address may be written with copying ink J;lencil. Value not to be dis- 3. No registered parcel shall have written on it mformation as to closed. the value of its contests, although this may be stated on the ac- companying customs declaration. Advice of delivery. 4. The sender of a registered parcel may obtain an advice of de- livery upon payment of such additional charge, if any, as the coun- try of origin of the parcel shall stipulate. A fee may be charged, . Requestsforinforma- at the optIOn of the country of origm, on a request for information tlOn. as to the disposal of a registered parcel made after it has been posted, if the sender has not already paid the special fee to obtain an advice of delivery. Marking of requests. 5. Whe~ an advice of delivery is desired, the sender or office of origin shall write or stamp on the parcel in a conspicu(lus manner, the words "Return receipt requested," "Advice of delivery re- quested," or, boldly, the letters" A. R ." Labeling, etc., regis. 6. Each rerstered parcel must be marked or labeled or stamped tered parcels. " Registered' in a conspicuous manner and bear a distinguishing number. The customs declaration, if not ~mmed to the parcel, must also be marked or labeled or stamped' Registered." BilJingrequirements. 7. Registered parcels shall be entered by the dispatching office of exchange on bills which shall show in respect to each parcel the registration number and the office (and state or country) of origin. The entry on the bill of any returned parcel must be followed by the word" Returned." AdditIOnal indiCIa may be required by mutual agreement from time to time, if found necessary. The bills should 00 numbered in the upper left-hand corner, commencing each calen- dar year with a new series for each office of exchange of destination. The last number of the year shall be shown on the parcel bill of the first dispatch of the following year. ARTICLE X Separate bills re- 1. Each dispatch of ordinary parcel post and each dispatch of quired. registered parcel post must be accompanied with a separate parcel bill in duplicate, which must be enclosed in one of the sacks of such Ordinary parcels. Registered parcels. dispatch. The ordinary parcels shall be advised on the parcel bills simply by an indication of their total number. Each registered parcel shall be entered separately on the registered parcel bill.