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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. REGULATIONS OF EXECUTION OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL CONVENTION The undersigned, in view of Article 5 of the Universal Postal Ante, p.3310. Convention concluded at Paris on July 5, 1947, have, in the name of their respective Administrations, drawn up, by common consent, the following measures to assure the execution of the said Convention: TITLE I. General Provisions. SOLE CHAPTER. ARTICLE 101. Transit in closed mails and transitin open mail. 1. Administrations may send reciprocally, through the intermediary of one or more of them, both closed mails and correspondence in open mail, in accordance with the needs of the traffic and the require- ments of the service. 2. The transmission of correspondence in open mail to an inter- mediate Administration must be limited strictly to cases where the preparation of closed mails, either for the country of destination itself or for a country nearer the latter, is not justified. ARTICLE 102. Exchange in closed mails. 1. The exchange of correspondence in closed mails is governed by mutual agreement between the Administrations concerned. 2. It is obligatory to make up closed mails whenever one of the intermediate Administrations so requests, basing its request on the fact that the number of articles in open mail is such as to hinder its operations. 3. The Administrations through whose intermediary closed mails are to be dispatched shall be duly notified in advance. 4. In case of alteration in an exchange of closed mails established between two Administrations through the intermediary of one or more third countries, the Administration of origin of the dispatch gives notice thereof to the Administrations of those countries. 5. If it is a question of a change in the routing of the dispatches, the new route to be followed shall be indicated to the Administrations which have previously effected the transit, while the former route is indicated, as information, to the Administrations which will subse- quently perform such transit. 3350

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