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 3324 Fee. Special messenger lee. Unprepaid articles. Ante, p. 3322. Unsuccessful deliv- ery attempts. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. ARTICLE 46. Cancellation of customs duty and other non-postal charges. The Administrations undertake to make representations to the services which are concerned of their countries with a view to having the customs duties and other non-postal charges annulled on articles returned to the country of origin, destroyed because of complete deterioration of the contents, or forwarded to a third country. ARTICLE 47. Special-delivery articles. 1. Articles of correspondence are, at the request of the senders, delivered to the addressees by special messenger immediately after their arrival, in countries whose Administrations agree to undertake that service. 2. Such articles, known as special-delivery articles, are liable, in addition to the regular postage, to a special fee amounting at least to the postage on an ordinary single-rate letter, and at most to 60 centimes. This fee must be fully prepaid. 3. When the addressee's residence is situated outside the local de- livery zone of the office of destination, delivery by special messenger may give rise to the collection of a supplementary charge by the Ad- ministration of destination, not exceeding that collected in the do- mestic service for articles of the same kind. However, special delivery is not obligatory in such cases. 4. Special-delivery articles upon which the total amount of the charges payable in advance has not been prepaid are delivered by the ordinary means, unless they have been treated as special-delivery articles by the office of origin. In the latter case, the articles are rated in accordance with the provisions of Article 38. 5. It is permissible for Administrations to make only one attempt to deliver by special messenger. If such attempt is unsuccessful, the article may be treated as an ordinary article. ARTICLE 48. Articles to be delivered to the addressee only. In relations with Administrations which have given their consent, registered articles of correspondence accompanied by a return receipt are delivered, at the sender's request, to the addressee only. ARTICLE 49. Prohibitions. 1. The sending of the articles mentioned in Column 1 of the table below is prohibited. When mail articles containing them have been wrongly accepted for mailing, they shall undergo the treatment indicated in Column 2.

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