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 61 STAT.] PHILIPPINES-POSTAL CONVENTION-SEPT. 17, 30, 1947 4165 the amount required to fully prepay the postage thereon when orig- inally mailed. Insufficiently prepaid articles in the regular mails shall be liable on return to senders to the charge for deficient postage that would have been collected from the addressees if said articles had been delivered. Article 8 (a) Parcel-post packages shall be dispatched in separate sacks from Dispatch of parcels. other articles. (b) Parcel bills shall be prepared in duplicate for such parcels dispatched. The duplicate is sent in the regular mails, while the original is in- serted in one of the sacks. The sack containing the parcel bill is to be designated by the letter "F" on the label. (c) The parcels included in each dispatch are to be entered on the bills to show the total number of parcels according to the following divisions of weight: (1) not over 11 pounds (2) over 11 pounds (d) Parcels sent "a decouvert" must be entered separately on the bills. Returned or redirected parcels must be entered individually on the bills and be followed by the word "Returned" or "Redirected". (e) The total number of sacks comprising each dispatch must also be shown on the bills. (f) Each dispatching exchange office numbers the bills in the upper left-hand corner in accordance with an annual series. The last num- ber of the preceding year must be mentioned on the first bill of the following year. (g) The exact method of advising parcels or the receptacles con- taining them sent by one Administration in transit through the other, together with any details of procedure in connection with the advice of such parcels or receptacles for which provision is not made in this Convention, shall be settled by mutual consent through correspondence between the two Administrations. Article 9 (a) On receipt of a dispatch of parcel post packages, the exchange Receipf parcel office of destination proceeds to verify it. The entries in the parcel bill must be verified exactly. Each error or omission must be brought immediately to the knowledge of the dispatching exchange office by means of a bulletin of verification. A dispatch is considered as hav- ing been found in order in all regards when no bulletin of verification is made up. If any error or irregularity which could give rise to liability for compensation is found upon receipt of a dispatch, all objects which may serve later on for investigations, or for examination of requests for indemnity, must be kept.

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