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 54 STAT.] BARBADOS-PARCEL POST- g. 14, 1939 Sept. 13, 1939 DETAILED REGULATIONS FOR CARRYING OUT THE PARCEL POST AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE POSTAL ADMINISTRATION OF BARBADOS AND THE POSTAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMER- ICA. ARTICLE 1. Circulation. 1. Each Administration shall forward by the routes and means which it uses for its own parcels, parcels delivered to it by the other Administration for conveyance in transit through its territory. 2. Missent parcels shall be retransmitted to their proper destina- tion, by the most direct route at the disposal of the office retrans- mitting them. Insured parcels, when missent, may not be refor- warded to their destination except as insured mail. If this is im- possible, they must be returned to origin. ARTICLE 2. Method of transmission. Provisionof bags. 1. The exchange of parcels between the two countries shall be effected by the offices appointed by agreement between the two Ad- ministrations. The parcels shall be dispatched to the country of destination by the country of origin at its cost and by such means as it provides. 2. Parcels shall be exchanged between the two countries in bags duly fastened and sealed. In the absence of any arrangement to the contrary, the trans- mission of parcels dispatched by one of the two contracting countries in transit through the other shall be effected "a decouvert'. 3. A label showing the office of exchange of origin and the office of exchange of destination shall be attached to the neck of each bag, the number of parcels contained in the bag being indicated on the back of the label. 4. The bag containing the parcel bill and other documents shall be distinctively labeled. 5. Insured parcels shall be forwarded in separate bags. The neck label attached to any bag containing one or more insured parcels shall be marked with any distinctive symbol that may from time to time be agreed upon by the two Administrations. 6. The weight of any bag of parcels shall not exceed 36 kilograms (80 pounds avoirdupois). 7. The Postal Administrations of Barbados and of the United States of America shall provide the respective bags necessary for the dispatch of their parcels and each bag shall be marked to show the name of the office or country to which it belongs. 8. Bags must be returned empty to the dispatching office by the next mail. Empty bags to be returned are to be made up in bundles of ten, enclosing nine bags in one. The total number of bags returned shall be entered on the relative parcel bills. 9. Each Administration shall be required to make good the value of any bags which it fails to return. 1847 Circulation. Method of trans mrvison. Provisions as to bags. 193470°-41-PT. n- -39

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