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File 1311/1905 ‘Persian Gulf: - Post Offices. (Parcel Post Convention)’ [‎60r] (126/434)

The record is made up of 1 volume (212 folios). It was created in 8 Dec 1902-23 Feb 1911. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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No. 2798 , dated Bushire, the 20 th (received 30 th) September 1908 .
From— Captain A. P. Trevor, I.A., First Assistant Resident in charge current
duties,
To— S. H. Butler, Esq., C.I.E., Secretary to the Government of India in the
Foreign Department, Simla.
I have the honouj/to invite a reference to the correspondence ending with
your telegram No. S.-539, dated the 4th September 1908, on the subject of the
British Indian Post Offices on the Persian Coast of the Gulf.
It is unnecessary for me to recapitulate the steps by which the Indian Post
Offices on the Persian Coast from being Inland offices became offices working
under modified Postal Union rules. 1 may mention, however, that it has always
been an understood thing in the Indian offices that local letters bearing Persian
stamps are not accepted, the Postmaster in the recent case was, therefore, only
acting according to precedent.
I be^ to call the attention of the Government of India to one result of our
Post offices accepting local letters from the Persian Post Office, which may have
escaped attention. The Persian/Post Office propose {vide letter from M. Deville,
Inspector-General of Posts, No. 86, dated 29th June 1908, attached) to accept
all letters whether registered or not up to two hours before sunset on Sunday
afternoons. Avery large amount of the correspondence from Bushire is regis
tered and the Registered Post is closed in the British Post Office on Saturday
afternoons. I am inclined to think that a good deal of this correspondence will
be attracted to the Persian Post Office, as all offices here are open on Sunday
and the firms will be glad to get an extra day to dispose of their correspondence.
In view of this fact I venture respectfully to suggest that the question of
opening the British Post Office on Sunday raised in my letter No. 91 dated the
18th February 1905, and negatived by the Government of India in the Foreign
Department litter No. 1906-E.B., dated the 20th May 1905, may be reconsidered.
The cost of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Mail service is entirely borne, I understand,
bv the Indian Government, and in view of this fact it seems advisable to retain
ll preata proportion of the receipts as possible. Perhaps, when the new arrange
ment is in force, British Post Offices may be permitted to accept letters for other
places in Persia where there are British Post Offices.
Bouchire ;
le 29 Juin 1908 .
Postes Imperiales.
Direction Generale du Sud.
^ Monsieur le Consul General,
Fn vertu des instructions qui m’onUte adressees par mon Administration,
l-honneur de porter & votre connaissance que le bureau des Postes Impenales
1 honneur ae pu i. _ ... maintenant. les lettres simples et recom-
■ PKonnenr de Dorter a votre connaiss^iioc 4 U- ■- . . 1
J ai 1 honneur ae p ^ ma i n t e nant, les lettres simples et recom-
Persanes de Bo"" 1 , t( L e nature e t les dchantillons sans valeur b. destina-
bo^ dtloirierpays du monde situds au-dela de Kurrachee. (Europe, Asie,
Amerique, etc.)
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Veuillez bien agreer Monsieur le Consul Gendral 1 assurance de ma res
haute consideration. . . v ,.
I’lnspecteur Gendral des Postes de Perse en mission a Bouchir,
(Sd.) DEVILLE.
Monsieur le Consul-General d’Angleterre,
a Bouchir.
G. C. B. P., Simla.— No. C.-39S F. D.-8.10-08.-30.-H. A. W.
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The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials, about their negotiations in the lead up to the Parcel Post Agreement of 1910 with Persia. The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department at Calcutta and the British Chargé d'Affaires at Tehran. They discuss cooperative arrangements for the examination by Persian Customs officials of postal parcels arriving from India and elsewhere, at British Indian Post Offices in Bushire and other towns along the Persian Coast of the Gulf. Included in the volume are copies of the following documents written in French: the Parcel Post Agreement between Great Britain and Persia of 1910 and Annex of 1911, the Parcel Post Agreement between Austro-Hungary and Turkey of 1870, and several letters by senior Persian Customs officials at Bushire and Tehran.

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1 volume (212 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 1311 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : post offices: Parcel Post Convention) consists of one volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the leading flyleaf with 1 and terminates at the ending flyleaf with 212; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.

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