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 62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION-JULY 5, 1947 3. Registered special-delivery articles are arranged in order among the other registered articles, and the note Expres (special delivery) is placed in the Observations column of Table V of the letter bill or of the special lists, opposite the entry concerning each of them. In case of bulk billing, the presence of registered articles to be specially de- livered is indicated simply by the note Expres (special delivery) in Table V of the letter bill. 3375 Registered articles. Ante, pp. 3264, 3373. ARTICLE 148. Preparationof dispatches. 1. As a general rule, articles are sorted and tied in bundles accord- ing to the nature of the correspondence, letters and post cards being included in the same bundle, and newspapers and periodicals being made up into packets, apart from those containing ordinary prints. The bundles are designated by labels bearing the indication of the office of destination or redispatch of the articles contained in the bundles. Articles of correspondence capable of being tied in bundles shall be faced in the same direction. Prepaid articles are separated from those which are unprepaid or shortpaid, and the labels of bundles of articles which are unprepaid or shortpaid are marked with the T-stamp. 2. Letters bearing traces of opening, deterioration or damage shall be marked with a mention of the fact and be marked with the date stamp of the office which has detected it. 3. Money orders sent uninclosed are tied in a separate bundle, which shall be included in a packet or sack containing registered articles and, should the occasion arise, in the packet or sack of insured articles. If the dispatch does not contain either registered or insured articles, the orders are placed in the envelope containing the letter bill or tied up with the latter. 4. Dispatches are inclosed in sacks suitably closed, sealed with wax or lead, and labeled. When use is made of string, it shall be passed twice around the neck of the sack before being tied. The imprints on the wax or lead seals shall reproduce, in very legible Latin characters, the name of the office of origin or an indication sufficient to permit that office to be determined. 5. The labels of the dispatches shall be of cloth, strong cardboard, parchment, or paper pasted on a wooden block; in relations between adjacent offices, use may be made of labels of strong paper. The labels are made up in the following colors: (a) In vermillion red, for sacks containing registered articles; (b) In white, for sacks containing only ordinary letters and post cards; (c) In light blue, for sacks containing only ordinary other articles; (d) In green, for sacks containing only empty sacks returned to origin. 6. Unless the Administration of transit or of destination advises to the contrary, it is also permissible to use white labels with an Sorting; bundles. Damaged, etc., let- ters. Money orders. Closing, etc., of sacks. Labels, etc. Color designations.

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