The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-08
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
and PARCELS POST.
Ruling by the Secret
airy on Treatment
Of Packages.
NATTER IN CUSTOMS Department
DUTY TO BE COLLECTED OF
PARCELS FROM FOREIGN
COUNTRIES.
Parcels Appraised and Assesse'
With Duty by the Collector of
Customs -Treatmeut of Re
gestered Packages.

The United States Treasury De
oartment has recently made the FOL,
owing ruling regarding the conduc
If the parcels post between countrie:
n the Postal Union and the United
States:
Treasury Department, May 4. 1900.
To Officers of the Customs and Others
Concerned:
In order to secure uniformity in tbs
treatment of parcels post packages i'm
Dorted in the foreign mails, the fol-
lowing instructions are issued and
heir observance enjoined upon the va
'ious officers of the customs:
UNSEALED PACKAGES.
All unsealed packages Except regis
eredD received by parcels post con-
aiming articles liable to customs du-
les will be delivered by the postmaster
IT the exchange Office of receipt to The
OAiCNtOl vi OtnCl OllIICI vi lut
in whose district said office of OK
,hange is situated. who will appraise
ieliver and collect duty on packages
addressed to person. residing in his
district, using entry Form Cat NJ
j35, and require the addressee to affiy
the entry, in the place provide
herefor, the necessary internal reve
Tue stamp. Those packages addresse'
o postoftices other than exchange of
ices OF receipt should after appralsa
md rating Of duty by the collector o.
pther officer of the customs in who's
district the exchange office of recel"
is situated, be returned to the pcstmas-
ter from whom they were received, ac-
2ompanied by entry, Form Cat. No
635, properly filled in, who will prompt
ly transmit them to the addresses
'harged with the duties levied thereon
vhich amounts postmasters at office
f destination will collect from the I'D
iressees on delivery and remit, to,
ether with the entry, by first regis
-ered mail thereafter to the officer cf
he customs at the exchange postofice
If receipt. Postmasters at offices Of
destination will require addresses &c
fix to the entry the necessary inter
nal revenue stamp.
For illustration: A dutiable parcels
lost package received at the New YGrl
Nostoffice IAN exchange office of -
"eirt) addressed to person residing
It Washington, d. c.. should be ap-
>raised and assessed with duty by rhc
collector of customs at New York. If
'er which the package and entry shorI-
Ne by him returned to the postmaster
II New York. who will forward them II
he mails to the addressee at WASHING
.cn, charged with the duty levied
'hereon, and the postmaster at Wash
neton will collect the duty from thr
add~essee on delivery and remit the
-ame 10 the collector of customs =
New York. accompanied by the entry
>roperly stamped. Thus. Ii will be 1b
served, that officers of the customs
'ocated at other than exchange Offices
If receipt are in no way concerned 81
he treatment Of unsealed parcels post
packages.
Registered packages. unsealed. should
he submitted to the officer of the Gus
'oms at the exchange Office of recain'
FOR appraisement and rating of duty
after which they should be returne'
% the postmaster at the exchange 81
Zee of recent. accompanied by an eu-
'ry. for delivery and collection of DID,
lies (if the addressee resides in The
'ity in which the exchange office of re
"eint is situatedl. or for TRANSPORTATION
N the mails TO the Office of destination
Packages closed with nails or screws
IRE to be treated as unsealed.
The duties collected on unsealed
>arcels most packages are TO be ac-
eounted for as receipts from customs
SEALED PACKAGES.
The conventions under which par
cells post packages are exchanged pro.
vide that such packages must be so
wrapped or inclosed as to permit their
contents to be easily examined by cns-
.oms officers and by postmasters an
.horized to do so. Therefore. when
"ackages Cincluidng registered) pear
seals. or are so wrapped or inclosed IS
70 prevent examination without ma
'erial damage to. or destruction Of.
their contents. they should not he
treated as parcels rost packages. but
as illegal importations. except in g.
Ease of books. and released upon pay
ment of fines equal to duties, or ep-
PRAISED value. as is done with importa
lions under the Universal Postal Union
Convention. Books will be delivered m
>ayment Of duty Joint Regulations,
T. D. 1926: articles sos and Sl7. Gus
toms Regulations. 1892. and T. d.
1SSS7)
Fines collected on sealed packages
should be taken up in fines sccoun.s
UNDELIvERABLE PACKAGES
Parcels post packages which cannot
be delivered should be returned to the
country of origin at the expiration OF
thirty Gays from their receipt at the
office Of destination, except packages
from the Republic of~Colombia, which
are TO be returned at the expiration u
ninety days, and also except Barbados
and Jamaica. When packages from he
two last named places cannot be de-
uvered. the senders should be notified
by the Postofice Department. and II no
reply Is received from them within
three months from the date OF notice
such packages may be sold for thu
benefit Of whom 1t may concern HE
beneficiary is held TO be the sender.