PARCEL POST AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND NEW ZEALAND
Article I
Scope of Agreement
The provisions of this Agreement relate only to parcel-post packages to be exchanged by the system herein provided for, and do not affect the arrangements now existing under the Universal Postal Convention, as regards articles of correspondence, which will continue as theretofore.
Article II
Manner of Exchange
1. There shall be a regular exchange of surface parcels between the two countries which shall be effected by means of direct postal service or, when such service is not available or is interrupted by unavoidable causes, by such other means as will be agreed upon by the Postal Administration of the two countries.
2. There shall also be direct exchange of Air Parcels between the two countries which shall be effected by any air-craft or Airline contracted by the country of origin.
3. Each country shall designate its exchange offices through which it will dispatch and receive parcels, communicating to the other country the names of such exchange offices.
Article III
Postage
1. The Administration of each contracting country shall fix the rates of the postage it shall charge on parcels mailed in its country and communicate to the other said rates and any other charges therein.
2. The prepayment of postage referred to in the preceding section shall be compulsory.
Article IV
Credits
The Administration of the country of origin shall allow the country of destination terminal charges at the following rates:
One kilogram or less….. Over 1 kilogram but not more than 3 kilograms Over 3 kilograms but not more than 5 kilograms Over 5 kilograms but not more than 10 kilograms
Limits of Weight and Size
1. No parcel shall exceed 10 kilograms in weight Combined. Places in each country where parcels of the maximum weight and size cannot be sent at any time for any reason shall be communicated to the other country.
2. As regards the exact calculation of the weight and size, the view of the dispatching office shall be accepted except in case of obvious error.
Article VI
Prohibitions
1. The following articles are prohibited for transmission by the parcel-post service herein provided:
(a) Articles excluded from the domestic mail off either country.
(b) Articles the importation of which is not admitted in accordance with customs and other laws and regulations in force in the country destination.
(c) Letters of communications having the nature of an actual and personal correspondence, whether attached to, enclosed in, or written on a parcel. (However, open invoices shall not be considered as such letters or communications.)
(d) Articles enclosed in or attached to a parcel but addressed to a person other than addressee of the parcel.
(e) Articles which, by their nature of packing, may expose postal employees to danger or soil or damage other parcels.
2. When a parcel containing any prohibited articles is received at the country of destination, it shall be treated as in accordance with the internal laws and regulations of that country. However, explosives, inflammable or dangerous articles, as well as documents, pictures, and other articles injurious to public morals are under no circumstances forwarded to destination, delivered to the addresses or returned to origin.
Article VII
Application of Customs and other Laws,
Customs Duties and Other Charges
1. Parcels are subject to all customs and other laws and regulations in force in the country of destination. The customs duties and other non-postal charges payable on that account are collected from the addressees.
2. Customs duties and other non-postal charges on parcels either returned to origin, abandoned by the sender, destroyed on account of the whole loss of the contents, or redirected to a third country, shall be cancelled.
3. For customs examination, the seals or other fastening of parcels may be broken without authority of the addressees. In case this faculty is exercised, the parcels must be repacked in such a manner as prescribed in the internal legislation of the country of destination if delivery is not effected immediately after examination.
Article VIIII
Fee of Customs Formalities
Fee for Delivery
Warehousing Charges
1. The Administration of the country of destination 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 1.00 gold franc per parcel.
2. The Administration of the country of destination may collect from the addressee for delivery of parcels at the post office or at the addressee’s residence a fee not exceeding 50 centimes per parcel. The same fee may be charged for each presentation after the first at the addressee’s residence.
3. The Administration of the country of destination may collect from the addressee a warehousing charge for an undelivered parcel in accordance with its internal legislation
4. The fees and charges prescribed by the above three sections shall not be cancelled even in case the parcel is redirected or returned out of the country.
Article IX
Delivery Redirection
1. Parcels shall be delivered as quickly as possible in accordance with the internal legislation in the country of destination.
2. Parcels may, at the addressee’s request be redirected within or outside the country of the destination in consequence of the change of address of the addressee, provided that, for redirection out of the country, the parcels comply with the conditions required for their further conveyance.
3. The Administration of destination may collect from this addressee additional charges prescribed by its internal regulations for redirection of parcels within that country. These charges shall not be cancelled even if the parcels are redirected out of the country or returned to origin.
4. Requests for redirection out of the country, whether by surface or air route, shall be accompanied with the Additional charges required, except that when such requests are made through the Administration of the country of origin, the additional charges may be collected through the medium of the parcel-post accounts.
5. The sender is entitled to forbid any redirection by means of a suitable annotation on the parcel and on the customs declaration.
Article X
Non-delivery
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 it is not deliverable as addressed.
2. If the sender does not make any request in accordance with the preceding section of the sender’s request has not resulted in delivery, undeliverable parcels shall be returned to the sender at the expiration of the period prescribed by the internal regulations of the country of destination, except that parcels refused by the addressees shall be returned at once.
3. The provisions of section 2, 3, and 4 of Article II are applicable to the parcels redirected in or out of the country of destination or returned to origin in consequence of non-delivery.
4. Undeliverable parcels which the sender has requested to be abandoned are not returned but are disposed of in accordance with the internal legislation of destination.
Article XI
Inquiry
1. Within one year from the date following that of mailing, and inquiry on a parcel may be accepted and given due course. A fee of not more than 60 centimes may be charged for such inquiry
2. When the inquiry referred to in the preceding section is to be sent by air mail at the request of the interested party, the prescribed fee, if any, shall be charged, and, in addition, a charge of its air transmission, or if the reply is to be returned by air mail, double this charge may also be collected. If the inquiry is to be transmitted by telegraph, the charge for the telegram may be collected in addition to the prescribed fee, if any.
3. Only a single fee or charge of prescribed by Sections 1 and 2 hereof is collected in respect of an inquiry concerning two or more parcels mauled simultaneously at the same office by the same sender to the same addressee at the same address.
Article XII
Sale or Destruction
1. The Administration of each contracting country may sell the contents of a parcel, without previous notice or judicial formality, for the benefit of the right party, when such contents are liable to deterioration or corruption in the service.
2. If for any reason sale is impossible, the spoilt or putrid articles are destroyed.
Article XIII
Indemnity
The Administration of the two contracting countries will not be responsible for the loss of parcels exchanged between them nor for the abstraction of or damage to their contents, but the Administration of each contracting country is at liberty to indemnity for such loss, abstraction or damage occurring in its service, without recourse to other administration.
Article XIV
Unauthorized Postal Charges
No postal charges other than those prescribed by this Agreement shall be collected for parcels exchanged between the two contracting countries.
Article XV
Standard Monetary Unit
A franc regarded as the monetary unit in the provisions of this agreement is the gold franc of 100 centimes weighing 10/31 of a gram and having a fineness of 0.900.
Article XVI
Temporary Suspension of Service
The administration of each contracting country may temporarily suspend the exchange of parcels, either entirely or partially, whenever it considers it necessary or advisable, on condition that the other Administration is immediately notified.
Article XVII
Detailed Regulations and
Application of the Internal Legislation
1. The details necessary for the execution of this Agreement shall be mutually provided for in the form of Detailed Regulations by the Administrations of the two contracting countries.
2. As to matters affecting the service of each country which are not expressly covered by this Agreement sand the Detailed Regulations, each contracting country shall apply its internal legislation.
Agreement
1. This agreement shall be approved by each contracting country in accordance with its legal procedures, and thereafter it shall enter into force on the date to be agreed upon by the contracting countries.
2. This agreement shall continue in force until terminated anytime by mutual consent or until six months either of the contracting countries shall have notified the other of the intention to terminate the agreement.
Done in duplicate, in the English Language, and signed at Manila on the 9th of MAY,1960, at Wellington on the 29th day of March, 1960.
Postmaster GeneralFor the Government of New Zealand:
Postmaster General
Entry into Force: August 2, 1960