제16163호                           관                보                     2006. 1. 3. (화요일)

   2.2.2 any act of using, circulating,               periodicals, books and similar printed
     marketing, distributing, disseminating,          documentation for the same addressee at
     transporting, exhibiting, showing, or            the same address called“M bags”
                                                                                    , up to
     publicizing any means of postal                  30 kilogrammes.
     prepayment which has been falsified,        3 Letter-post items shall be classified on the
     imitated or counterfeited;                      basis either of the speed of treatment of the
   2.2.3 any act of using or circulating, for        items or of the contents of the items in
     postal purposes, any means of postal            accordance       with     the   Letter          Post
     prepayment which has already been               Regulations.
     used;                                       4 Higher weight limits than those indicated in
   2.2.4 any attempt to commit any of these          paragraph 2 apply optionally for certain
     violations.                                     letter-post item categories under the
3 Reciprocity                                        conditions specified in the Letter Post
 3.1 As regards sanctions, no distinction            Regulations.
   shall be made between the acts outlined       5 Member countries shall also ensure the
   in 2, irrespective of whether national or         acceptance, handling, conveyance and
   foreign means of postal prepayment are            delivery of postal parcels up to 20
   involved; this provision shall not be             kilogrammes, either as laid down in the
   subject to any legal or conventional              Convention, or, in the case of outward
   condition of reciprocity.                         parcels and after bilateral agreement, by
 Part II                                             any     other    means      which        is     more
 Rules applicable to letter post and postal          advantageous to their customers.
 parcels                                         6 Weight limits higher than 20 kilogrammes
 Chapter 1                                           apply optionally for certain parcel-post
 Provision of services                               categories under the conditions specified in
Article 12                                           the Parcel Post Regulations.
Basic services                                   7 Any country whose postal administration
1 Member countries shall ensure the                  does not undertake the conveyance of
 acceptance, handling, conveyance and                parcels may arrange for the provisions of
 delivery of letter-post items.                      the Convention to be implemented by
2 Letter-post items are:                             transport companies. It may, at the same
 2.1 priority items and non-priority items,          time,    limit   this    service    to        parcels
   up to 2 kilogrammes;                              originating in or addressed to places served
 2.2 letters, postcards, printed papers and          by these companies.
   small packets, up to 2 kilogrammes;           8 Notwithstanding paragraph 5, countries
 2.3 literature for the blind, up to 7               which, prior to 1 January 2001 were not
   kilogrammes;                                      parties to the Postal Parcels Agreement
 2.4 special bags containing newspapers,             shall not be obliged to provide the postal

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