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3.
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What happens to an undeliverable article?
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An article
with an incomplete or ineligible address is consigned to Returned
Letter Office, while article of an unknown addressee is either
redirected in case fresh address is known or kept in deposit for seven
days before sending it back to sender or to the Returned Letter
Office.
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4.
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What is prohibited to be transmitted by the post?
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Anything
which is sent in contravention of any enactment or government orders.
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An
indecent or obscene printing, painting, photograph, lithograph,
engraving, book, or card or any other indecent or obscene articles.
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Any
explosive, inflammable, dangerous, filthy, noxious or deleterious
substance.
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5.
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Can I send articles of value in ordinary letter?
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No Coin,
bullion, precious stones, jewellery, currency notes and articles of gold
or silver may only be sent, by the inland post insured. They may be sent
by the foreign insured parcel post and can also be sent by the foreign
letter post only in registered letters. |
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What happens to unpaid and insufficiently paid inland and foreign
letters?
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An inland
letter posted unpaid is charged on delivery with double the postage and
letter insufficiently prepaid is charged on delivery with double the
amount of the deficiency. Similarly unpaid and insufficiently paid
letters posted in Pakistan for transmission to a foreign country are
returned to senders if their addresses can be easily ascertained.
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7.
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What is Universal Postal Union?
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Almost all
the countries of the world have joined together into a union, known as
the Universal Postal Union to regulate
the postal services amongst them.
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8.
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Despatch
note is a document to be presented with a parcel addressed to a foreign
country. Despatch Note is available at the post office counter free of
charge.
Sender is required to enter his name and address as well the name and
address of addressee in the despatch note. Rest of the entries in the
despatch note is to be made by the postal official at the counter.
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