Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 61 Part 4.djvu/814

 61 STAT.] PHILIPPINES-POSTAL CONVENTION-SEPT. 17, 30, 1947 Greatest length, 31/2 feet, except that parcels may measure up to 4 feet in length, on condition that parcels over 42 and not over 44 inches in length do not exceed 24 inches in girth, parcels over 44 and not over 46 inches in length do not exceed 20 inches in girth, and parcels over 46 inches and up to 4 feet in length do not exceed 16 inches in girth. The weight limits and dimensions for the other articles mentioned above under (a) as well as the postage rates and registration fees for such articles will be the same as are generally applicable from the United States of America to the countries of the Americo-Spanish Postal Union. In no case may the rates, fees, weight limits and dimen- sions or other provisions be less favorable, for the public, than those provided for by the Universal Postal Convention then in force. (e) Except as required by the regulations of the country of destina- tion for the collection of its customs duties, all admissible matter mailed in one country for the other, or received in one country from the other, shall be free from any detention or inspection whatever, and shall be forwarded by the most speedy means to its destination and be promptly delivered to the respective persons to whom it is addressed, being subject in its transmission to the laws and regulations of such country respectively. Article 2 (a) Each Administration shall retain to its own use the whole of the postage and registration, or special delivery fees it collects on postal articles exchanged with the other, including deficient postage, but it is agreed that on packages sent at parcel post rates, the country of origin shall allow to the country of destination on the total excess number of parcel post packages dispatched over the number of such packages received, 30 cents for each parcel not over 11 pounds in weight and 60 cents for each parcel over 11 pounds in weight, settlement to be made quarterly in a general postal account between the two countries on the basis of the parcel bills. The charges specified above may be reduced or increased on three months previous notice given by one country to the other. These reductions or increases shall hold good for at least one year. (b) The charges to be paid for the transit of parcel post and air mail of one country by the services of the other country shall be fixed by the country whose services are utilized. (c) The charges to be paid for the transit to a third country of articles in the regular mails of one country by the services of the other country shall be the transit charges, based on transit statistics, pro- vided by the Universal Postal Convention then in force (d) In case of the total loss of a registered article originating in either country and addressed to the other, the maximum indemnity shall be the amount provided by the Universal Postal Union Conven- tion in force from time to time. (e) The special delivery fee to be levied and collected upon first class mail matter originating in either country and addresed to the other shall be twenty cents. 4163 Fees collected on postal articles.

�