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 PARCEL POST CONVENTION-FINLAND. 8eptemher I, 1932. September 23, 1982. 2175 ant as soon as possible and at the latest within a period of one year I d. 1t c counting with the day following that on which the application is t1n~ed~mu y- on· made, which payment shall be made on account of the Administra- tion of destination, if that Administration is responsible for the loss, rifling, or damage, and has been duly notified. 11. However, the Administration of origin may in the case.c; indi- cated in the foregoing section, exceptionally defer payment of indemnity for a lon~er period than that stipulated if, at the eXllira- tion of that period, It has not been able to determine the disposItion made of the article in question or the responsibility incurred. 12. Except in cases where payment is exceptionally deferred as provided in the foregoing section, the country of origin is authorized to pay indemnity on behalf of the country of destination if that country has, after being duly informed of the a.pplication for in- demnity, let nine months pass without settling the matter. 13. The obli~ation of paying the indemnity shall rest with the country to whICh the mailing office is subordinate. That country can make a claim on the country responsible, that is to say, against the Administration on the terrItory or in the service of which the loss, rifling, or damage took place. 14. The country responsible for the loss, rifling, or damage and on whose account payment is made is bound to repay to the country making payment on its behalf, without delay and within not more than nine months after r~ceiving notice of payment, the amount of indemnity paid. 15. ReImbursements for indemnity from one country to the other shall be made on the gold basis. 16. Repayments are to be made free of cost to the creditor country by means of either a money order or a draft, or in money valid in the creditor country, or by such other means as may be mutually agreed upon by correspondence. 17. Until the contrary is proved, responsibility for an insured parrel rests with the country which, having received the parcel with- out making any observation and being furnished all necessary par- ticulars for inquiry, is unable to show its proper disposition. If the loss, abstraction, or damage has occurred in the course of conveyance without its being possible to ascert!l.in in which service the irregularity took place, the Postal Administrations concerned bear the loss in ~ual shares. 18. ResponsibilIty for loss, rifling, or damage of an insured parcel discovered by the receiving office of exchange at the time of opening the receptacles and duly notified to the despatching office of exchange by bulletin of verification, shall fall upon the Administration to which the despatchine; office of exchange is subordinate unless it be proved that the loss, rIfling, or damage occurred. in the service of the receiv- ing Administration. 19. The responsibility of properly. enclosing, packing7 and sealing insured parcels rests upon the sender, and the postal servlce of neither country will assume liability for loss, riflin~, or dama~e arising from defects which may not be observed at the tIme of postmg. ARTICLE 18. Tramit Parcels. 1. Each Administration guarantees the right of transit over its Tra;:I8it parcels. territory, to or from any country with which it has parcel post com- munication, of parcels originating in or addressed for delivery in the territory of the other contracting Administration.