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 NETHERLANDS-PARCEL POST Se-tember ,937 - September 20,1937 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. AnTICLE VII. 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. A parcel cannot give rise to the right to an indemnity higher than the actual value of its contents, but it is permissible to insure it for only part of that value. ARTICL VIII. Responsibility. Indemnity. 1. The Postal Administrations of the two contracting countries will not be responsible for the loss, abstraction or damage of an ordinary parcel. 2. Except in the cases mentioned in the Article following, the Administrations are responsible for the loss of insured parcels mailed in one of the two contracting countries for delivery in the other and for the loss, abstraction of or damage to their contents, or a part thereof. The sender, or other rightful claimant, is entitled to compensation corresponding to the actual amount of the loss, abstraction or damage. The amount of indemnity is calculated on the basis of the actual value (current price, or, in the absence of current price, the ordinary estimated value) at the place where and the time when the parcel was accepted for mailing, provided in any case that the indemnity may not be greater than the amount for which the parcel was in- sured, and on which the insurance fee has been collected or the maximum amount of 500 gold francs. 3. No indemnity is paid for indirect damages or loss of profits resulting from the loss, rifling, damage, non-delivery, misdelivery or delay of an insured parcel dispatched in accordance with the con- ditions of the present agreement. 4. In the case where indemnity is payable for the loss of a parcel or for the destruction or abstraction of the whole of the contents thereof the sender is entitled to return of the postal charges, if claimed. However, the insurance fees are not returned in any case. 5. In the absence of special agreement to the contrary between the countries involved, which agreement may be made by correspondence, no indemnity will be paid by either country for the loss of transit insured parcels, that is, parcels originating in a country not partic- ipating in this agreement and destined for one of the two contract- ing countries or parcels originating in one of the two contracting countries and destined for a country not participating in this agreement. 6. When an insured parcel originating in one country and des- tined to be delivered in the other country is reforwarded from there to a third country or is returned to a third country, at the request of the sender or of the addressee, the party entitled to the indemnity in case of loss, rifling or damage occurring subsequent to the re- forwarding or return of the parcel by the original country of des- tination, can lay claim, in such a case, only to the indemnity which Parcels wrongly ad- mitted. Insurance. Maximum. Limitation. Responsibility. Indemnity. Indirect damages etc. Return of postage on loss of parcel. Loss of transit in- sured parcels. Parcels reforwarded to a third country, etc.

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