'Iraqi Post and Telegraph Guide 1930' [‎46r] (94/483)

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blank space on the right-hand of the form, alongside the address of the
addressee.
C\) A receipt will beyiven to the person who presents a foreign parcel
for insurance at the window of the post office, during the hours pres
cribed for posting insured foreign parcels. He may also, if the parcel
is addressed to any of the countries mentioned in the Foreign Post
Directory, having a double asterisk after the indication " Parcel
Post,” obtain, as in the case of an ordinary parcel (see clause 167), an
acknowledgment of delivery of the insured parcel, by paying a fee’, in
addition to the postage and insurance fee,
185. Minimum Size.— No foreign parcel will be accepted at
any post office for insurance if it is so small or so covered with writing
or sealing-wax on the address-side, or otherwise made up in such a
manner, as to render impracticable to affix to the article the prescribed
official labels of the Post Office
Explanation. —This rule does not apply to a parcel which has an
address label tied to it, provided that the label is not so small or so
covered with writing on the address side, as to render it impracticable to
affix to that side the prescribed official labels of the Post Office. No
address label is permissible in the case of insured parcels containing coin
bullion, jewellery, articles of gold, silver and platinum etc. In sucli
cases the address must be written on the actual cover of the article.
186. Penalty for Breach of Conditions. —An article presen
ted for insurance by the foreign parcel post which does not fulfil the
prescribed conditions as to prepayment, packing, sealing, addresshm
weight, size and value or which contains any prohibited articles or
which does not comply with the conditions mentioned in clause 184
will not be accepted for despatch.
187. Responsibility of Post Office for Parcels Posted in
Iraq and Insured to Destination —When a foreign parcel, not being
a parcel addressed to a prisoner of war or to an Information Bureau
established for prisoners in a Belligerent country or in a neutral country
which has received belligerents in its territory or to a belligerent inter
ned in a neutral country, has been insured by the Post- Office and posted
in Iraq there will, in the event of the parcel or the contents thereof being
lost or damaged in the course of transmission by post, be payable to the
sender or in default, or at the request of the sender, to the addressee of
the parcel, compensation on account of such loss or damage not exceeding
the amount for which the parcel has been insured, provided that where
the addressee makes reservations on taking delivery of a damaged
article or of an article the contents of which have been abstracted, or
furnishes proof that the sender has waived his rights in the addressee’s
favour compensation as aforesaid shall be payable to tbe addressee and
not to the sender. In the following cases, namely.
(i) when the whole of the contents of the parcel are lost, des
troyed or abstracted or. ;