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 PALESTINE-PARCEL POST-Set.61944 -- May-, 1943 ARTICLE XIX. Insured parcels. Rates and conditions. 1. Parcels may be insured up to a limit of $100 when mailed in the United States of America and £20 when mailed in Palestine. 2. The Administration of origin is entitled to collect from the sender of an insured parcel, an insurance fee fixed according to its internal regulations. 3. The Administration of origin is also entitled to collect from the sender of an insured parcel a dispatch fee not exceeding 50 centimes. 4. A receipt must be given free of charge at the time of posting to the sender of an insured parcel. ARTICLE XX. Fraudulentinsurance. The insured value may not exceed the actual value of the contents of the parcel, but it is permitted to insure only part of this value. The fraudulent insurance of a parcel for a sum exceeding the actual value shall be subject to any legal proceedings which may be admitted by the laws of the country of origin. A parcel of which the contents have no pecuniary value may, how- ever, be insured for a nominal sum in order to obtain the safeguards of the insurance system. ARTICLE XXI. Responsibility for loss, damage, or abstraction. 1. Except in the cases mentioned in the following article, the two Administrations shall be responsible for the loss of insured parcels only, and for the loss, damage, or abstraction of their contents or of a part thereof. The sender or other rightful claimant is entitled under this head to compensation corresponding to the actual amount of the loss, damage or abstraction. The amount of compensation for an insured parcel shall not exceed the amount for which it was insured. In cases where the loss, damage, or abstraction occurs in the service of the country of destination, the Administration of destination may pay compensation to the addressee at its own expense and without consulting the Administration of origin; provided that the addressee can prove that the sender has waived his rights in the addressee's favor. 2. In calculating the amount of compensation, indirect loss or loss of profits shall not be taken into consideration. 3. Compensation shall be calculated on the current price of goods of the same nature at the place and time at which the goods were accepted for transmission or, in the absence of current price, on the ordinary estimated value. 4. Where compensation is due for the loss, destruction, or complete damage of an insured parcel or for the abstraction of the whole of the ,contents, the sender is entitled to return of the postage also, if claimed. Insurance fee. Dispatch fee. Receipt. ('ompensltio.ll Return of pstage on loss of parcel. 58 STAT.] 1527

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