AGREEMENT between the Postal Administrations of Great Britain and Denmark additional to the Agreement for the Exchange of Postal Parcels, signed at Copenhagen, August 22, and at London, September 14, 1903.*London, July 6, and Copenhagen, August 20, 1920.†

ART. I. Parcels subject to the collection of trade charges can be exchanged between the United Kingdom and Denmark.

II. (1.) The maximum amount of trade charge in the case of parcels for delivery in the United Kingdom is fixed at 401. per parcel, and, in the case of parcels for delivery in Denmark, at 720 kroner per parcel.

(2.) In calculating the amount of trade charge, fractions of a penny or of 1 öre are ignored.

III. (1.) Each Administration fixes the special fee to be levied from the sender of a parcel subject to a trade charge. This fee must not exceed :

(a.) 2d. for each 11. or fraction of 11. to be collected in the case of parcels posted in the United Kingdom.

(b.) 15 öre for each 15 kroner or fraction of 15 kroner to be collected in the case of parcels posted in Denmark.

(2.) Each Administration shall communicate to the other the special fee fixed in its service by virtue of the preceding paragraph, as well as any alteration subsequently made in it.

(3.) This fee is shared between the Administration of the country of origin and that of the country of destination in the manner prescribed in the detailed regulations.

IV. (1.) In addition to the special fee fixed by the preceding article, the Post Office of the United Kingdom is entitled to collect a posting fee from the sender not exceeding 2d. per parcel and a delivery fee from the addressee not exceeding 4d. per parcel.

(2.) Each Administration shall communicate to the other the special fees fixed in its service by virtue of this article, as well as any alterations subsequently made in them.

(3.) These fees shall be retained by the office which collects them.

V. The amounts of trade charges collected are liquidated by means of trade charge money orders, which are issued free of all charges. The amount of a trade charge money order which cannot be delivered remains at the disposal of the Administration of the country of origin of the parcel on which the trade charge is payable.

VI. In principle, the amounts of trade charges should

* Vol. XCVI, page 7.

+ Signed also in the Danish language.

be paid in by the addressee of the parcel, and paid out to the sender in gold; but each Administration shall have power to receive and employ for this purpose any other money legally current in its country, provided, that due allowance is made for any difference in the exchange value.

VII. (1.) The loss of a parcel subject to a trade charge entails responsibility upon the postal service in the conditions fixed by the agreement in force between the Post Office of Great Britain and Ireland and the Post Office of Denmark for the exchange of parcels not subject to a trade charge.

(2.) After the delivery of the parcel, the Post Office of the country of destination is responsible for the amount of the trade charge, unless it can prove that the parcel and the relative despatch note did not, when transmitted to its service, bear the indications prescribed in the detailed regulations for parcels subject to trade charges. Nevertheless, an application as to the disposal of the amount of a trade charge is only entertained if made within a year of the posting of the parcel.

VIII. The sender of a parcel posted under this arrangement may not have the amount of the trade charge cancelled or reduced after posting.

IX. The two Administrations undertake to admit parcels subject to trade charges in transit through their services. Nevertheless, the accounts relative to the trade charges collected will be drawn up and settled directly between the Post Office of origin and destination of the parcels subject to trade charges.

X. The two Administrations are authorised to fix by common consent the measures of detail necessary for ensuring the performance of the present Agreement and to modify them from time to time in accordance with the needs. of the service.

XI. This Agreement shall come into force on the date* to be agreed upon between the two Administrations. It will remain in force until the expiry of one year from the date on which either Administration shall give notice to the other of its intention to terminate it.

Done in duplicate at London the 6th day of July, 1920, and at Copenhagen, the 20th day of August, 1920.

(L.S.)
(L.S.)

ALBERT H. ILLINGWORTH.
KIORBOE.

The Agreement came into force on completion, viz., August 20, 1920;

but the service actually commenced on January 1, 1920.

DETAILED REGULATIONS for carrying out the Agreement concerning the Exchange of Postal Parcels subject to Trade Charges concluded between the Postal Administration of Great Britain and Denmark.-London, July 6, and Copenhagen, August 20, 1920.*

ART. 1.-(1.) On parcels subject to trade charges, and on the despatch notes relating to the them, the word "Remboursement" must be written or printed boldly beside the address, and after it the amount of the trade charge must be shown in Latin characters, in the money of the country of origin, without erasure or correction, even if certified.

(2.) Each parcel subject to a trade charge must be accompanied by a separate despatch note.

(3.) Each parcel subject to a trade charge and the relative despatch note must bear a red label with the word Remboursement in Latin characters.

(4.) Each parcel subject to a trade charge posted under this arrangement must bear on the cover and on the back of the relative despatch note a request signed by the sender that if the parcel is undeliverable at the expiration of fifteen days from its arrival at the place of destination, it is to be (a) abandoned or (b) returned to him at his expense.

2. Each parcel subject to a trade charge is entered on the parcel bill with a note of the amount of the trade charge.

3.-(1.) Every parcel subject to a trade charge is accompanied by a trade charge money order in conformity with, or analogous to, the specimen B annexed to the present Agreement. This money order, which is attached to the despatch note, should bear a statement of the amount of the trade charge in the currency of the country of origin, and should show, as a general rule, the sender of the parcel as payee of the order. It is free to each Administration, however, to have the orders relating to the parcels originating in its service addressed to the offices of origin of the parcels or to other offices.

(2.) Entries in pencil will not be allowed on trade charge money orders.

4. Except by contrary agreement between the Administrations of origin and of destination, the amounts of the trade charge orders are converted into the currency of the country of destination by the Post Office of that country, which uses for this purpose the same rate of conversion as it uses for the conversion of ordinary money orders drawn on the country of origin of the parcels.

Signed also in the Danish language.

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5.—(1.) Immediately after collecting the trade charge, the office of destination, or any other office designated by the Administration of the country of destination, fills in the part Indications de Service" of the trade charge order, and, after impressing it with its date-stamp, returns it free of postage to the country of origin in the manner prescribed by Article 24, Section 1, of the Detailed Regulations for the execution of the Principal Convention of the Postal Union or any article which may be substituted therefor.

(2.) Trade charge orders are paid under the conditions determined by each Administration, with a view to ensure the payment of the amounts of the trade charges to the senders of the parcels.

6.—(1.) Parcels subject to the collection of trade charges can be redirected if the new country of destination maintains with that of origin an exchange of trade charge parcels. The parcels are, in case of redirection, accompanied by the trade charge orders made out by the service of origin. The new office of destination acts in the settlement of the trade charge as if the parcel had been directly consigned to it.

(2.) In the case of an application for redirection to a country which does not maintain with that of origin an exchange of trade charge parcels, the parcel is treated as one which cannot be delivered.

7.--(1.) Trade charge orders relating to parcels which, for any reason whatever, are returned to origin should be cancelled by the office which returns the parcels, and should be annexed to the despatch notes.

(2.) Trade charge orders mislaid, lost, or destroyed before the collection of the trade charge are replaced, without formalities, by new orders bearing the heading " Duplicate." The request for a duplicate is addressed directly to the office of origin of the parcel.

(3.) Trade charge orders mislaid, lost, or destroyed after the collection of the trade charge are likewise replaced by duplicates, or by authorities to pay, after proof by the two Post Offices that the orders have not been paid or refunded.

8.-(1.) Trade charge orders which it has not been possible to deliver to the payees within the period of validity fixed by the Agreement concluded between the two Administrations for the exchange of money orders are, at the expiration of the period of validity, receipted by the office of the country of payment, and are claimed from the office which issued them.

(2.) Trade charge orders which have been delivered to the payees, and of which the payees have not claimed payment within the period of validity fixed by the Agreement concluded between the two Administrations for the exchange

of money orders, are replaced by authorities to pay. These authorities to pay are drawn up by the office which issued the orders, as soon as it has been able to ascertain that the originals have not been paid within the period of validity. They are receipted by the Post Office of destination, and claimed by it in the first account rendered after their receipt. 9.—(1.) Trade charge money orders of which payment cannot be effected for one of the following reasons:

(i.) Incorrect, insufficient, or doubtful description of the name or residence of the payees;

(ii.) Difference or omissions of names or amounts;
(iii.) Erasures of, or additions to, the entries;

(iv.) Omission of stamps, signatures, or other service. indications;

(v.) Use of irregular forms;

shall be corrected by the post office which has issued them. (2.) For this purpose, the orders shall be returned as soon as possible, officially registered, to the office of origin by the office of destination.

10. (1.) The settlement relative to trade charges paid by each Post Office on behalf of the other Post Office is effected by means of supplements (specimen A annexed)* to the detailed accounts of money order transactions between the two post offices.

(2.) In the trade charge accounts, which are accompanied by the paid and receipted trade charge orders, the orders are entered in alphabetical sequence of the offices of issue and in numerical sequence of their issue at that office. At the end of the account the office which has drawn it up deducts from the total sum of its credit per cent., representing the share of the other office in the trade charge fee.

(3.) The total of the trade charge account is included in the detailed money order account for the same period, and settled as part of the general account in respect of money orders. The verification of the trade charge accounts is effected according to the provisions of the Agreement governing the exchange of money orders between the two post offices.

11. The present Regulations shall be brought into operation on the day on which the Agreement comes into force. They shall have the same duration as the Agreement. Done in duplicate at London the 6th day of July, 1920, and at Copenhagen, the 20th day of August, 1920.

(L.S.) ALBERT H. ILLINGWORTH. (L.S.)

KIORBOE.

[Specimens A and B, not reproduced.]

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