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 58 STAT.] PALESTINE-PARCEL POST Sept. 6 ,1 1537 May 10, 1943 2. When a parcel has been wrongly allowed to be dispatched in consequence of an error attributable to the postal service and has, for this reason, to be returned to the country of origin, the Admin- istration which sends the parcel back shall allow to the Administra- tion from which it was received the sums credited in respect of it. 3. The charges on a parcel redirected, in consequence of the re- moval of the addressee or of an error on the part of the sender, to a country with which Palestine or the United States of America has parcel-post communication shall be claimed from the Administration to which the parcel is forwarded; unless the charge for conveyance is paid at the time of redirection, in which case the parcel shall be dealt with as if it had been addressed directly from the retransmitting country to the new country of destination. In case the third country to which the parcel is forwarded refuses to assume the charges because they cannot be collected from the sender or the addressee, as the case may be, or for any other reason, they shall be charged back to the country of origin. 4. A parcel which is redirected shall be retransmitted in its original packing and shall be accompanied by the original dispatch note. If the parcel, for any reason whatsoever, has to be repacked or if the original dispatch note has to be replaced by a substitute note, the name of the office of origin of the parcel and the original serial number and, if possible, the date of posting at that office shall be entered both on the parcel and on the dispatch note. ARTICLE 16. Return of undeliverable parcels. 1. If the sender of an undeliverable parcel has made a request not provided for by Article XIV, Section 1, of the Agreement, the Ad- .nte, . 1525. ministration of destination need not comply with it but may return the parcel to the country of origin, after retention for the prescribed period. 2. The Administration which returns a parcel to the sender shall indicate clearly and concisely on the parcel and on the relative dispatch note the cause of nondelivery. This information may be furnished in manuscript or by means of a stamped impression or a label. The original dispatch note belonging to the returned parcel must be sent back to the country of origin with the parcel. 3. A parcel to be returned to the sender shall be entered on the parcel bill with the word "Rebut" in the "Observations" column. It shall be dealt with and charged like a parcel redirected in consequence of the removal of the addressee. ARTICLE 17. Sale. Destruction. When an insured parcel has been sold or destroyed in accordance with the provisions of Article XVI of the Agreement, a report of the Acet, p. 1L sale or destruction shall be prepared, a copy of which shall be trans- mitted to the Administration of origin.

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