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 PARCEL POST CONVENTION-CUBA. .J ULY 24, 1930. 2849 2. In the event of a parcel bill not having been received, a sub- bifl~bstitute parcel stitute should be prepared at once. 3. Any errors m the entries on the parcel bill which may be dis- Correction of errOnl. covered shall, after verification by a second officer, be corrected and noted for report to the dispatching office on a form "Bulletin of Verification' which should be sent in a special envelope. 4. As soon as the registered parcel mail shall have reached the Receipt of mails. office of destination, that office shall check the contents of the mail. 5. If a registered parcel advised on the bill be not received, after Nonreceipt of parcel. the non-receipt has been verified by a second officer, the entry on the bill should be canceled, the notation" Not received" placed after that entry, and the fact reported at once. "- Should a parcel be received in damaged or imperfect condition, Damaged parce18. full particulars of the fact should be reported on the same kind of a form and the facts noted on the bill and the cover of the parcel by the exchange office of reCeipt. 6 If no "Bulletin of Verification" or note of error be received. Presumption of cle- '. • ••, ilvery. a parcel mall shall be conSIdered as duly dehvered, havmg been found on examination correct in all respects. ARTICLE XI 1. Except in cases of loss through force majeure (circumstances Indemnity. beyond control, such as acts of war, earthquakes, tempests, etc., or Allowance to sender. such other causes as are considered in the nature of force majeure by the country in whose service the loss occurred), the sender or addressee of a registered parcel shall be entitled to an indemnity for the total loss of a parcel (wrapper and contents) corresponding to the actual amount, based on the actual value at the time of mailing of the lost article, unless the loss has arisen from the fault or negligence of the sender or the addressee, or the representative of either, or from the nature of the article, provided always that the indemnity Limlt. shall not exceed the sum of ten (10) dollars (gold) for anyone registered parcel on which the required registry fee was paid. 2. Neither countr1 is bound to pay indemnity in case of loss due je: by force ma- to "force majeure' under any particular definitions of that term . unless the other country will assume liability reciprocally under the same definitions of the term, although either country may at its option and without recourse to the other country pay indemnity for loss occurring through" force majeure" under any definitions of that term. 3. This agreement contemplates payment of indemnity only for the co~:;e:ges o loss of registered parcels exchanged thereunderhbut it shall be com- etc. " petent for the parties hereto to arrange throug correspondence for the payment of indemnity for damage or rifling of such parcels at any time the adoption of such an arrangement is mutually desired by both countries. 4. In case the sender of a registered parcel, with intent to defraud, False apprai8ements. shall at any time allege the contents to be above their real value, he shall lose all claim to compensation or to the return of the postage, and the enforcement of this rule shall not prejUdice any legal pro- ceedings to which such fraudulent declaration may have rendered him liable. 5. Responsibility for the loss of a registered parcel discovered s~n~I:~cblced~ at the receiving office of exchange at the time of opening the recep- coffiered by receiving tacles and duly notified to the dispatching office of exchange by 0 ceo "Bulletin of Verification," shall fall upon the Administration to which the dispatching office of exchange is subordinate unless it be proved that the loss occurred in the service of the receiving Adminis- tration.