"Express" articles upon which the entire charges which are payable in advance are not fully prepaid are delivered by the ordinary means.
VII
Article 10 will, in future, read as follows:
Article 10
No additional charge is levied for the reforwarding of postal matter within the interior of the Union.
Undeliverable correspondence does not give rise to a restitution of the transit charges due to intermediary administrations for the previous conveyance of said correspondence.
VIII
The first three paragraphs of Article 11 are suppressed, and are replaced by the following provisions:
It is forbidden to the public to send by mail:
- 1st. Letters or packets containing pieces of money;
- 2nd. Any packets whatever containing articles liable to customs duty;
- 3rd. Gold or silver bullion, precious stones, jewelry, or other precious articles, but only in case the legislation of the countries concerned prohibits their being placed in the mails or their being forwarded.
IX
Article 13 is modified as follows:
Article 13
The service of letters with declared value, and the services of money orders, postal parcels, amounts to be collected, books of identity, &c., form the subject of special arrangements between the different countries or groups of countries of the Union.
X
The last part of the last paragraph of Article 14, commencing with the words: "for the conditions of the delivery of letters by express", is suppressed, and this paragraph will read in future as follows:
The Administrations interested are, however, permitted to come to mutual arrangements for the adoption of lower rates of postage, within a radius of 30 kilometers.
