62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION-JULY 5, 1947 TITLE II. Conditions for Acceptance of Articles of Correspondence. CHAPTER I. Provisions Applicable to all Classes of Articles. ARTICLE 107. Preparationand address. 1. The Administrations shall advise the public: (a) To address mail articles in Latin characters, and to place the address lengthwise, in such a way as to leave the necessary space for the service notations or labels; (b) To indicate the names of the locality and country of destination in capital letters; (c) To indicate the address in a precise and complete manner, so that the dispatch of the article and its delivery to the addressee may be effected without research; (d) To place postage stamps or postage-paid impressions in the upper right-hand corner of the address side; (e) To indicate the name and address of the sender, either on the front and at the left side, in such a way as not to affect either the clarity of the address or the application of the service notations or labels, or on the back; (f) To use, for articles of all kinds, envelopes whose dimensions are not less than 10 centimeters in length and 7 centimeters in width; (g) To make up their articles securely, particularly if they are ad- dressed to distant countries; (h) To add the word Lettre (letter) on the address side of letters which, by reason of their volume or packing, may be mistaken for other articles; (i) On articles sent at the reduced rate, to indicate, by annotations such as: Papiers d'affaires (commercial papers), Imprimes (prints), Echantillon (sample), Petit paquet (small packet), etc.; the class to which they belong. 2. Articles of any kind whose address side has been wholly or partly divided into several spaces intended to receive successive addresses are not accepted. 3. Non-postage stamps and charity or other stamps capable of being mistaken for postage stamps may not be affixed to the address side. The same applies to imprints of stamps which might be con- fused with postage-paid impressions. 3353
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