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 BAHAMAS-PARCEL POST AGREEMENT Oct. 29 1936 De. 21,1936 ARTrCLE IV Preparationof Parcels. Every parcel shall be packed in a manner adequate for the length of the journey and the protection of the contents as set forth in the Regulations of Execution. ARTICLE V Prohibitions. 1. The following articles are prohibited transmission by parcel post: (a) A letter or a communication having the nature of a letter. Nevertheless, it is permitted to enclose in a parcel an open invoice, confined to the particulars which constitute an invoice and also a simple copy of the address of the parcel, with mention oi the address of the sender. (b) An enclosure which bears an address different from that placed on the cover of the parcel. (c) Any live animal, except leeches. (d) Opium, morphine, cocaine and other narcotics. (e) Any article the admission of which is forbidden by the cus- toms or other laws or regulations in force in either country. (f) Any explosive or inflammable article, and in general any article the conveyance of which is dangerous, including articles which from their nature or packing may be a source of danger to postal employees, or may soil or damage other parcels. (g) Obscene or immoral articles. (h) It is, moreover, forbidden to send coin, bank notes, currency notes, or any kind of securities payable to bearer, platinum, gold or silver (whether manufactured or unmanufactured), precious stones, jewels, or other precious articles in uninsured parcels. 2. When a parcel contravening any of these prohibitions is handed over by one Administration to the other, the latter shall proceed in accordance with its laws and inland regulations. Explosive or in- flammable articles, as well as documents, pictures and other articles injurious to public morals may be destroyed on the spot by the Administration which has found them in the mails. The fact that a parcel contains a letter, or a communication having the nature of a letter, may not, in any case, entail the return of the parcel to the sender. The letter is, however, marked for the collec- tion of postage due from the addressee at the regular rate. The two Administrations advise each other, by means of the List of Prohibited Articles published by the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union, of all prohibited articles. However, they do not on that account assume any responsibility towards the customs or police authorities, or the sender. 3. If parcels wrongly admitted to the post are neither returned to origin nor delivered to the addressee, the Administration of origin must be informed in a precise manner of the treatment accorded to the parcels. ARTICE VI Insurance. Parcels may be insured up to the amount of 500 gold francs or its equivalent in the currency of the country of origin. However, the Chiefs of the Postal Administrations of the two contracting coun- tries may, by mutual consent, increase or decrease this maximum amount of insurance. Preparation of par. eels. Packing. Post, p. 1482. Prohibitions. Articles specified. Letters, etc. Enclosure with dif- ferent address. Live animals. Narcotics. Nonadmissible arti- cles. Explosive, etc., articles. Obscene, etc., arti- cles. Designated unin- sured articles. Prohibited articles erroneously handled. Parcel containing a letter. List of Prohibited Articles. Treatmentof wrong- ly admitted parcels. Insurance. Maximum amonnt. 1473

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