2584 Rm:ting of mails. UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION. June 28, 1929. 3. -En cas de changement dans un service d'echange en dep~ches closes etabli entre deux Adminis- trations par 1'entremise d'un ou de plusieurs pays tiers, l'Adminis- tration qui a provoque Ie change- ment en donne connaissance aux Administrations de ces pays. ARTICLE 3. Acheminement des correspon- dances. l.- Chaque Administration est obligee d'acheminer, par les voies les plus rapides qu'elle emploie pour ses propres envois, les de- p~hes closes et les correspon- dances a decouvert qui lui sont livrees par une autre Adminis- tration. Lorsqu'une dep~he se compose de plusieurs sacs, ceux-ci doivent, autant que possible, rester reunis et ~t~e ~chemines par Ie m~me courner. 3. In case of alteration in an exchange of closed mails estab- lished between two Administra- tions thru the intermediary of one or more third countries, the Administration which has caused the change gives notice thereof to the Administrations of those countries. ARTICLE 3 Routing of mails 1. Each Administration is obliged to forward by the most rapid routes which it employs for its own dispatches the closed mails and articles in open mail which are delivered to it by another Administration. When a mail is composed of several sacks, they must, as far as possible, remain together and be forwarded in the same dis- patch. Missent articles of all kinds are, without any delay. refor- warded by the most rapid route to their destination. Les objets de toute nature mal diriges sont, sans aucun d61ai, rooxpedies par 180 voie 180 plus prompte sur leur destination. Optional rO~lt('s may 2.- L'Administration du pays be designated. d'origine a 180 faculM d'indiquer 2. The Administration of the country of origin has the option of indicating the route to be followed by the closed mails which it dis- patches, provided that the em- ployment of that route does not Involve special expenses for an intermediate Administration. 180 voie a suivre les dep&hes closes <tu'elle expedie1 pourvu que l'emplOl de cette VOle n'entratne pas, pour une Administration mtermediaire, des frais speciaux. 80us la mhne r~erve, les Ad- ministrations intervenant dans le transport doivent tenir compte de la t'me d suivre portee par l'expediteur sur les enoois qui leur sont transmis d decouvert. Collection of extra 3.- Les Administrations qui charges therefor. usent de 1& faculte de percevoir With the same reservation, the Administrations intervening in the transportation shall take account of the route to be followed indi- cated by the sender on articles sent to them in open mail. 3. Administrations which make use of the option of collect- ing supplementary charges, rep- resenting the extraordinary ex- penses relating to certain routes, are free not to send unpr-epaid or ins1.Ifficiently prepaid correspond- ence by those routes. Distant countries. Deftnltion of. des taxes suppIementaires, en representation des frais extra- ordinaires aff6rents a certaines voies, sont libres de ne pas diriger par ces voies les correspondances non affranchies ou insuffisamment affranchies. ARTICLE 4. Pays eloig!L~. ARTICLE 4 Distant countries t.-8ont consider~ comme pays 1. Countries between which the eloignh Us pays entre lesquels la shortest transit time by land or
