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Article 7                                              2.2 The provisions set out under 2.1 shall
Exemption from postal charges                           also apply to letter-post items, postal
1 Principle                                             parcels and postal financial services items
  1.1 Cases of exemption from postal charges,           originating in other countries and
    as meaning exemption from postal                    addressed to or sent by civilian internees
    prepayment, shall be expressly laid down            as defined by the Geneva Convention of
    by the Convention. Nonetheless, the                 12 August 1949 relative to the protection
    Regulations may provide for both                    of civilian persons in time of war, either
    exemption from postal prepayment and                direct or through the offices mentioned in
    exemption from payment of transit                   the Regulations of the Convention and of
    charges, terminal dues and inward rates
                                                        the Postal Payment Services Agreement.
    for letter-post items and postal parcels
                                                       2.3   The     offices    mentioned    in    the
    relating to the postal service sent by
                                                        Regulations of the Convention and of the
    postal administrations and Restricted
                                                        Postal Payment Services Agreement shall
    Unions. Furthermore, letter-post items
                                                        also enjoy exemption from postal charges
    and postal parcels sent by the UPU
                                                        in respect of letter-post items, postal
    International Bureau to Restricted Unions
                                                        parcels and postal financial services items
    and postal administrations shall be
                                                        which concern the persons referred to
    considered to be items relating to the
                                                        under 2.1 and 2.2, which they send or
    postal service and shall be exempted from
                                                        receive, either direct or as intermediaries.
    all     postal   charges.   However,    the
                                                       2.4 Parcels shall be admitted free of
    administration of origin shall have the
                                                        postage up to a weight of 5 kilogrammes.
    option of collecting air surcharges on the
                                                        The weight limit shall be increased to 10
    latter items.
                                                        kilogrammes in the case of parcels, the
2 Prisoners of war and civilian internees
  2.1 Letter-post items, postal parcels and             contents of which cannot be split up and

    postal financial services items addressed           of parcels addressed to a camp or the

    to or sent by prisoners of war, either              prisoners’representatives there “
                                                                                        ( hommes

    direct or through the offices mentioned in          de confiance”) for distribution to the

    the Regulations of the Convention and of            prisoners.

    the Postal Payment Services Agreement,             2.5 In the accounting between postal
    shall be exempt from all postal charges,            administrations, rates shall not be
    with the exception of air surcharges.               allocated for service parcels and for
    Belligerents apprehended and interned in            prisoner-of-war and civilian internee
    a neutral country shall be classed with             parcels, apart from the air conveyance
    prisoners of war proper so far as the               dues applicable to air parcels.
    application of the foregoing provisions is     3 Literature for the blind
    concerned.                                         3.1 Literature for the blind shall be exempt

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