File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’ [‎180r] (364/456)

DETAILED REGULATIONS.
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7. Les envois a remettre par expres
sont frappes d’un timbre portant en
gros caracteres le mot “ Expres.” Les
Administrations sont toutefois autorisees
a remplacer ce timbre par une etiquette
imprimee ou par une inscription manu-
scrite et soulignee en crayon de couleur.
Les envois qui ont ete munis de la
mention “ Expres ” par le bureau d’origine
sont remis a domicile par porteur special,
meme en cas d’omission ou d’insuffisance
de I’affrancbissement. Le cas echeant, le
bureau d’echange du pays de destination
est tenu de signaler 1’irregularite par
bulletin de verification a 1’Administration
centrale dont releve le bureau d’origine.
Ce bulletin doit relater tres exactement
I’origine et la date du depot de 1’envoi.
8 . Tout objet de correspondance ne
portant pas le timbre T est considere
comme affranchi et traite en consequence,
sauf erreur evidente.
9. Les timbres-poste non obliteres
ensuite d’erreur ou d’omission dans le
service d’origine doivent 1'etre de la
maniere usuelle par le bureau qui constate
Firregularite.
X.
Indication du nombre de 'ports.
Lorsqu’une lettre ou tout autre objet
de correspondance non affranchi ou in-
suffisamment affranchi est passible, en
raison de son poids, de plus d’un port
simple, 1’Office d’origine ou d’entree dans
I’Union, suivant le cas, indique, a Tangle
gauche superieur de la suscription, en
chiffres ordinaires, le nombre des ports
de Tobjet.
XI.
Affranchissement insuffisant.
1. Lorsqu’un objet est insuffisamment
affranchi au moyen de timbres-poste,
TOffice expediteur indique, au moyen d’un
timbre ou d’un autre precede, en chiffres
bien lisibles apposes a cote des timbres-
poste, le double du montant de Tinsuffi-
sance en Texprimant en francs et centimes.
II est fait exception, toutefois, pour les
correspondances qui sont devenues insuf
fisamment affranchies par suite de leur
reexpedition et auxquelles sont appli-
cables les dispositions de Tarticle XXVII
du present Reglement.
2 . D’apres cette indication, le bureau
d’echange du pays de destination frappe
Tobjet du montant de la taxe annotee,
conformement aux dispositions du § 3 de
Particle 5 de la Convention.
7. Articles to be delivered by express
are impressed with a stamp bearing in
large letters the word “ Express.” Ad
ministrations are, however, authorised to
substitute for that stamp a printed label or
a written inscription underlined with a
coloured pencil.
Correspondence which has been marked
“ Express ” by the Office of origin is
delivered by special messenger, even when
prepayment has been omitted or is insuffi
cient. In such cases the Office of Exchange
of the country of destination is bound to
report the irregularity by Verification
Note to the Central Administration to
which the Office of origin is subordinate.
This Verification Note must state very
precisely the origin and date of posting of
the article.
8 . Every article of correspondence
which does not bear the stamp T is con
sidered to be paid and treated accordingly,
unless there be an obvious error.
9. Postage stamps not cancelled in
consequence of error or omission on the
part of the Office of origin must be
cancelled in the usual way by the Office
which detects the irregularity.
X.
Indication of the Number of Bates.
When a letter or other article of
correspondence, unpaid or insufficiently
prepaid, is liable, by reason of its weight,
to more than a single rate of postage, the
Office of origin, or of entry into the Union,
as the case may be, indicates in the upper
left-hand corner of the address, in ordinary
figures, the number of rates.
XL
Insufficient Prepayment.
1 . When an article is insufficiently
prepaid by means of postage stamps, the
despatching Office indicates by means of
a stamp or other process in easily read
figures placed by the side of the postage
stamps, double the amount of the deficiency,
expressing it in francs and centimes.
An exception is made, however, in
the case of correspondence which has
become insufficiently prepaid in conse-
quence of redirection and to which the
stipulations of Article XXVII. of the
present Regulations are applicable.
2. According to this indication, the
office of exchange of the country of the
destination taxes the article with the
amount marked, in conformity with the
provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 5 of
the Convention.