Postal Manual Vol. VIII - India Post

they will be sent to the Returned Letter Office at Madras, Calcutta, Bombay, Patna or Amritsar (if
not already there, according to the country of original of the article as grouped in sub-rule (1)).
These Returned Letter Offices will dispose of the articles according to the instructions on the
subject in the Foreign Post Manual.
EXCEPTION : Articles bearing on the outside clear instruction from the senders for their
delivery to the agents or representatives of the senders in India in case of non-delivery to the
addresses, should not be detained but should be forwarded direct immediately to the agents or
representatives for delivery. Articles which, however, do not bear such instructions but merely
bear a superscription mentioning the name of the agents or representatives should be dealt with
under the provisions of the above paragraph.
416. Omitted.
417. Postage due on articles issued. – When an unregistered article is redirected to the
addressee or is returned to the sender it will be taxed with the postage, originally due on it, unless
it be redirected to a foreign country in which case the taxing of postage will be left to the office of
foreign exchange. Unpaid or insufficiently prepaid correspondence, other than letters and singly
postcards, and reply postcards of which the two halves are not fully prepaid, if posted for
transmission by the foreign post, will be returned to the sender. If any such article is not prepaid
with postage applicable to an inland article of the same category, the sender will be required to pay
double the deficiency in the internal postage. Unpaid and insufficiently prepaid foreign
correspondence including letters and postcards which have been marked by the sender for dispatch
by a ship which is not a mail ship will be similarly returned to the sender.
NOTE 1.- See Note 1 below rule 413.
NOTE 2.- See Rule 124-A of Posts and Telegraphs Manual, VolumeV
418. Stamping of R.L.O. envelopes and unregistered articles. – (1) When, according to
the provisions of the preceding rule, an article not enclosed in a R.L.O. envelope is taxed, the
R.L.O. date-stamp will be impressed on the article, the original “postage-due” impression
remaining intact and in force; but if the “postage-due” impression has been omitted or an article, or
if an article has to be taxed afresh as insufficiently paid or as a penalty for any infringement of the
rules, the R.L.O. postage-due stamp will be impressed on it. If such an article is enclosed in a
R.L.O. envelope, the postage-due stamp will be impressed on the envelope only. If a paid article is
redirected to the addressee without being enclosed in a R.L.O. envelope, the date-stamp will be
impressed on the article, but if it is enclosed in a R.L.O. envelope, the date-stamp will be
impressed on the envelope only.
(2) The postage-due stamp will always be impressed on the face of an article or R.L.O.
envelope.
419. Refusal of senders to pay postage due. – If any article, issued from a R.L.O for
delivery to the sender and realisation of the postage or any other sum taxed on it, is declined by the
sender and returned to the R.L.O., the Manager will, in the first instance, issue a letter to the
postmaster concerned in form R.L.O.-15. If the sender still refuses to pay the postage due, the
Manager will submit the case for the orders of the Postmaster-General, who will decide whether
non-official correspondence for the sender should be stopped, and if so, the necessary authority, in
form R.L.O.-15(a) will be issued to the postmaster, should the sender still refuse to pay the
postage, the Manager, will again submit the case to the Postmaster- General for final orders.