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April 24, 1933,

Recall and change of address.

Allowed, on request.

Customs charges.

Imposed by country of destination.

Cancellation, if returned or redirected.

Customs clearance.

Fee.

Delivery.

To addressees.

Charges.

Warehousing charges.

ARTICLE X.

Recall and Change of Address.

So long as a parcel has not been delivered to the addressee, the sender may recall it or cause its address to be changed. The Postal Administration of the country of origin may collect and retain, for this service, the charge fixed by its regulations. The requests for recall or change or address of parcels to be delivered in the United States of America shall be addressed to the Central Administration at Washington; those relating to parcels for delivery in New Zealand shall be addressed to the Central Administration at Wellington. ARTICLE XI.

Customs Charges.

The parcels are subject to all customs laws and regulations in force in the country of destination. The duties collectible on that account are collected from the addressee on delivery of the parcel in accordance with the customs regulations.

ARTICLE XII.

Customs Charges to be Cancelled.

The customs charges on parcels sent back to the country of origin or redirected to another country shall be cancelled both in New Zealand and the United States of America.

ARTICLE XIII.

Fee for Customs Clearance.

The office of delivery may collect from the addressee either in respect of delivery to the customs and clearance through the customs or in respect of delivery to the customs only, a fee not exceeding 12 cents (60 centimes) per parcel.

ARTICLE XIV.

Delivery to the Addressee. Fee for Delivery at the Place of Address.

1. Parcels are delivered to the addressees as quickly as possible in accordance with the conditions in force in the country of destination. This country may collect in respect of delivery of parcels to the addressee a fee not exceeding 10 cents (5 pence) per parcel. The same fee may be charged, if the case arises, for each presentation after the first at the addressee's residence or place of business.

ARTICLE XV.

Warehousing Charges.

The country of destination is authorized to collect the warehousing charge fixed by its legislation for parcels addressed "Poste Restante or which are not claimed within the prescribed period. This charge may in no case exceed one dollar (5 francs).

April 24, 1933.

ARTICLE XVI.

Missent Parcels.

Ordinary parcels, when missent, are reforwarded to their correct destination by the most direct route at the disposal of the reforwarding Administration. They must not be charged with customs or other charges by that Administration. Insured parcels, when missent, may not be reforwarded to their destination except as insured mail. If this is impossible, they must be returned to origin. When the reforwarding involves the return of the parcel to the office of origin, the retransmitting Administration refunds to that office the credits received and reports the error by a Bulletin of Verification.

When the reforwarding involves the dispatch of a parcel to a third country and if the amount credited to the retransmitting Administration is insufficient to cover the expenses of retransmission which it has to defray, the retransmitting Administration allows to the Administration to which it forwards the parcel the credits due it; it then recovers the amount of the deficiency by claiming it from the office of exchange from which the missent parcel was directly received. The reason for this claim is notified to the latter by means of a Bulletin of Verification.

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of additional charges.

1. A parcel may be redirected in consequence of the addressee's Allowed on payment change of address in the country of destination, at the request of either the sender or the addressee.

For the parcels redirected in its territory, the Postal Administration of the country of destination may collect additional charges fixed by its internal regulations. These charges shall not be cancelled even in case the parcel is returned to origin or reforwarded to another country.

2. A parcel may be redirected out of the country of original Forwarding to any address only at the sender's or the addressee's request and provided that the parcel complies with the conditions required for its further conveyance. Insured parcels shall not be redirected to another country except as insured mail.

New postage, as well as new insurance fees, in the case of insured parcels, may, if not prepaid, be collected upon delivery.

The sender is entitled to forbid, by means of a suitable entry on the dispatch note and on the parcel, any redirection.

ARTICLE XVIII.

Sale or Destruction.

Charges may be collected on delivery.

Forbidden, if so instructed.

Sale or destruction.

terioration.

1. Articles liable to deterioration or corruption, and these only, Articles liable to demay be sold immediately even on the outward or return journey, without previous notice or judicial formality, for the benefit of the right party.

If for any reason a sale is impossible, the spoilt or worthless articles shall be destroyed. The sale or destruction shall be recorded and report made to the Postal Administration of the country of origin.

Parcels marked "Abandon."

Nondelivery.

Requests, at time of mailing.

Return to sender, if not otherwise indicated.

Provisions governing nondeliverable parcel.

Charges.

Credits.

Ante, p. 1491; post, p. 1500.

Parcel in transit.

In case of reforwarding, etc.

Ante, p. 1496.

Parcels to or from a third country.

2. After the expiration of thirty days from the date of receipt at the office of destination, undeliverable parcels which the sender has marked "Abandon " may be sold at auction or otherwise disposed of as provided by the legislation of the country of destination. When insured parcels are involved, proper record will be made and the Administration of the country of origin notified as to the disposition made of the parcels. The Administration of the country of origin shall also be notified when for any other reason an insured parcel which is not delivered is not returned to the country of origin.

ARTICLE XIX.
Nondelivery.

1. The sender of a parcel may make a request at the time of mailing, as to the disposal of the parcel in the event of it not being deliverable as addressed, the particulars of which are set forth in the Regulations.

2. If the sender does not make any request in accordance with the foregoing Section, or the sender's request has not resulted in delivery, undeliverable parcels will be returned to the sender without previous notification at the expiration of thirty days, while parcels refused by the addressee will be returned at once.

3. The provisions of Article XX, Section 4 shall be applied to a parcel to be returned to the country of origin in consequence of nondelivery.

New postage, as well as new insurance fees, in the case of insured parcels, may, if not prepaid, be collected from the sender upon the return of his parcel.

ARTICLE XX.
Charges.

1. For each parcel exchanged between the contracting countries (Article I) the dispatching office credits to the office of destination, in the parcel bills, the quotas due to the latter, and indicated in the Regulations of Execution.

2. The sums to be paid for a parcel in transit, that is, parcels destined either for a possession or for a third country, are likewise indicated in the Regulations of Execution.

3. In the case of a parcel returned or reforwarded in transit through one of the two Administrations to or from the other, the intermediary Administration may claim also the sum due to it for any additional territorial or sea service provided, together with any amounts due to any other Administration or Administrations concerned.

4. In case of reforwarding or return to origin of a parcel the redispatching office recovers from the other office the quota due to it, namely, as the case may be,

(a) the charges prescribed by Section 1 above.
(b) the charges for reforwarding or return.

(c) the customs clearance, delivery and storage charges pro-
vided for by Articles XIII, XIV, and XV.

In case of reforwarding or return to a third country, the accrued charges, that is, such of the charges mentioned in (a), (b) and (c) above as are applicable, shall follow the parcel, but in the case that the third country concerned refuses to assume the charges, because they can not be collected from the addressee or sender, as the case may be, or for any other reason, they shall be charged back to the country of origin.

ARTICLE XXI.

April 24, 1933.

Postal charges other than those prescribed not to be collected.

The parcels to which this Agreement applies shall not be subject to any postal charges other than those contemplated by the different articles hereof.

ARTICLE XXII.

Air Parcels.

The Chiefs of the Postal Administrations of the two contracting countries have the right to fix by mutual consent the air surtax and other conditions in the case where parcels are conveyed by the air routes.

ARTICLE XXIII.

Temporary Suspension of Service.

In extraordinary circumstances such as will justify the measure, either Administration may temporarily suspend the parcel post service, either entirely or partially, on condition of giving immediate notice, if necessary by telegraph, to the other Administration.

ARTICLE XXIV.

Matters not provided for in the Present Agreement.

1. Unless they are provided for in the present Agreement, all questions concerning requests for recall or return of insured parcels, the obtaining and disposition of return receipts therefor, and adjustment of indemnity claims in connection therewith, shall be governed by the provisions of the Universal Postal Convention and its Regulations of Execution, insofar as they are applicable and are not contrary to the foregoing provisions. If the case is not provided for at all, the domestic legislation of the United States or of New Zealand, or the decisions made by one country or the other, are applicable in the respective country.

2. The details relative to the application of the present Agreement will be fixed by the two Administrations in Regulations of Execution, the provisions of which may be modified or completed by common consent by way of correspondence. A similar Agreement through correspondence may be made with a view to the exchange of C.O.D. parcels.

Charges other than prescribed.

Prohibition of.

Air parcels.

Surtax.

Temporary suspension of service.

Matters not herein provided for.

Convention, etc., provisions to govern.

Universal Postal

Vol. 46, p. 2523.

Details to be fixed by

common consent.

postal laws, etc.

3. The two Administrations notify each other mutually of their Mutual, notice of laws, ordinances and tariffs concerning the exchange of parcel post, as well as of all modifications in rates which may be subsequently made.

ARTICLE XXV.

Entry into Force and Duration of Agreement.

Entry into force, etc.

abrogated.

Vol. 32, p. 1843.

1. This Agreement substitutes and abrogates that signed at Wash- Former Agreement ington, the eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred, and at Wellington the twelfth day of February, one thousand nine hundred.

2. It shall become effective on ratification, but pending ratification it may be put into force administratively on a date to be mutually settled between the Administrations of the two countries.

86637°-34-—PT 2—14

Effective date.

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April 24, 1933.

It shall remain in force until one of the Administrations of the two contracting countries has given notice to the other, six months in advance, of its intention to terminate it.

3. Done in duplicate and signed at Washington the 24th day of April 1933, and at Wellington the third day of March 1933

[SEAL]

ADAM HAMILTON

Postmaster General of New Zealand.

JOSEPH C. O'MAHONEY

Acting Postmaster General of the

United States of America.

The foregoing Parcel Post Agreement between the United States of America and New Zealand has been negotiated and concluded with my advice and consent and is hereby approved and ratified.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.

[SEAL]

By the President.

CORDELL HULL

Secretary of State.

WASHINGTON, May 3, 1933.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

Regulations for exe

cution.

Limits of weight and size.

DETAILED REGULATIONS FOR THE EXECUTION
OF THE PARCEL POST CONVENTION.

The following Detailed Regulations for the Execution of the Parcel Post Convention have been agreed upon by the Chiefs of the Postal Administrations of the United States of America and New Zealand. They may be changed from time to time as may be deemed necessary.

ARTICLE 1.

Limits of Weight and Size.

1. The parcels to be exchanged under the provisions of this Agreement may not exceed 11 pounds in weight.

In the direction from the United States of America to New Zealand, these parcels may not exceed the following dimensions:

Greatest length 4 feet, on condition that parcels over 42 inches but not over 44 inches long do not exceed 24 inches in girth; that parcels over 44 inches but not over 46 inches long do not exceed 20 inches in girth; that parcels over 46 inches but not over 48 inches long do not exceed 16 inches in girth; and that parcels up to 31⁄2 feet in length do not exceed 6 feet in length and girth combined.

In the direction from New Zealand to the United States of America, these parcels may not exceed the following dimensions: Length, 32 feet; length and girth (taken in a direction other than that of the length) combined 6 feet.

The limit of weight and maximum dimensions stated above may be changed from time to time by agreement made through correspondence.

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