File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎179v] (363/456)

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UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION.
6° etendue de la responsabilite pecuni-
aire en matiere d’envois recom-
' mandes;
0° possibilito d’admettre les avis do
reception; et
7° autant que possible, tarif d’affranchis-
sement en viguenr dans le pays
en dehors de 1’Union par rapport
aux pays de FUnion.
IX.
Application des timbres.
1. Les correspondances originaires des
pays de I’Union sont frappees d’un timbre
indiquant autant que possible en caracteres
lathis le lieu d’origine et la date du depot
a la poste.
En outre, tous les timbres-poste vala-
bles doivent etre obliteres.
2. A I’arrivee, le bureau de destination
applique son timbre a date an verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. des
lettres et an recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. des cartes postalep.
Le bureau de la premiere destination
pent, en outre, marquer une empreinte de
son timbre a date au recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. de la seconde
partie des cartes postales avec reponse
payee.
3. Les objets de correspondance mal
diriges doivent etre frappes de I’empreinte
du timbre a date du bureau auquel ils sont
parvenus par erreur. Cette obligation in-
combe non seulement aux bureaux seden-
taires, mais aussi aux bureaux ambulants
autant que possible.
4. Le timbrage des correspondances
deposees sur les paquebots dans les boites
mobiles on entre les mains des agents des
postes embarques on des commandants
incombe, dans les cas prevus par le para-
graphe 5 de 1’article 11 de la Convention,
a 1’agent des postes embarque ou, s’il n’y
en a pas, au bureau de poste auquel ces
correspondances sont livrees en main. Le
cas echeant, celui-ci les frappe de son
timbre a date ordinaire et y appose la
mention “ Paquebot ” soit a la main, soit
au moyen d’une grille ou d’un timbre.
5. Les correspondances originaires des
pays etrangers a I’Union sont frappees,
par POffice de 1’Union qui les a receuillies,
d’un timbre indiquant le point et la date
d’entree dans le service de cet Office.
6. Les correspondances non affranchies
on insuffisamment affranchies sont, en
outre, frappees du timbre T (taxe a payer),
dont 1’application incombe a 1’Office du
pays d’origine s’il s’agit de corres
pondances originaires de 1’Union, et a
POffice du pays d’entree s’il s’agit de
correspondances originaires de pays
etrangers a 1’Union.
5° Extent of pecuniary responsibility
as regards registered articles ;
6° Whether advices of delivery are
obtainable or not; and
7° As far as possible, the rates of
postage from the country outside
the Union to the countries of the
Union.
IX.
Application of Stamps.
1. Correspondence despatched from
countries of the Union is impressed with
a stamp indicating as far as possible in
Roman characters the place of origin and
the date of posting.
Moreover, all the valid postage stamps
should be obliterated.
2. On arrival, the Office of destination
impresses its date-stamp on the back of
the letters and on the front of post cards.
The first Office of destination can, more
over, impress its date-stamp on the front
of the second half of reply-paid post-cards.
3. Missent correspondence must be
date-stamped by the Office to which it is
sent in error. This obligation is imposed,
not only on sedentary Offices, but also on
travelling Post Offices as far as possible.
4. The stamping of correspondence
deposited on board Packets in the movable
boxes or in the hands of the postal agents
on board or of the commanders devolves,
in the cases contemplated by paragraph 5
of Article 11 of the Convention, upon the
postal agent on board, or, if there be none,
on the Post Office to which the correspon
dence is handed over for disposal. In the
latter case this Office marks the correspon
dence with its ordinary date stamp, and
with the word “ Paquebot,” either in
manuscript or by means of an autograph
stamp or an ordinary stamp.
5. Correspondence originating in coun
tries foreign to the Union is marked, by
the Office of the Union which first received
it, with a stamp indicating the place and
date of entry into the service of that
Office.
6. Unpaid or insufficiently paid corres
pondence is, in addition, impressed with
the stamp T (tax to be paid), the appli
cation of which devolves upon the Office
of the country of origin in the case of
correspondence originating in the Union,
and upon the Office of the country of
entry in the case of correspondence
originating in countries foreign to the
Union.