Postal Manual Vol. VIII - India Post

(iv) all unregistered articles found to contain any saleable property or anything which
makes registration compulsory.
(2) The entries in the register will be made by a clerk in the Registration Branch and will be
examined and initialed by the Manager. The articles themselves will remain in the joint custody of
the Manager and the senior or head clerk in charge of the registration branch, and will be disposed
of by the latter under the supervision of the former.
(3) The Manager must count, examine and compare all articles in deposit with the entries
relating to them in the articles relating to them in the register at intervals which will be fixed by the
Postmaster- General with reference to the number of articles held in deposit.
NOTE – Hundis, bank drafts and cheques found inside undelivered articles received in the R.L.O.
will be impressed with the date-stamp as soon as the articles in which they are enclosed are opened.
425. articles of which registration is compulsory. – (1) when an unregistered article
containing anything for which registration is compulsory is issued by a R.L.O., it will be
forwarded as a registered article enclosed in a R.L.O. registered article envelope (R.L.O.-6). In so
far as the registration of these envelopes is concerned, the R.L.O. will be guided by the rules
relating to registration in post offices.
(2) An unregistered article which manifestly contains anything of a nature which renders
registration compulsory will, when issued for delivery to the addressee, be taxed on registration
with double the registration fee in addition to any postage that may be due on it.
NOTE – Unregistered articles issued by the R.L.O. in registered article envelopes for delivery to the
senders must in no case be taxed with registration fee.
426. Articles of which insurance is compulsory. – (1) When an uninsured article found in
a R.L.O. to contain any article the insurance of which is compulsory is issued for delivery to the
addressee, it will be forwarded in a protecting cover sealed with the insurance seal and addressed
to the postmaster of the office of destination after having a note recorded on it explaining why it is
so sent. If the article is not a registered article, the protecting cover will be registered on service
before it is despatched. If the article is to be returned to the sender, the procedure laid down in the
following paragraph will be followed.
(2) The protecting cover in which the article is received from the office of posting will be
opened in the presence of the Manager. If the address of the sender can be fully ascertained from
the particulars outside the article, it will be placed in another protecting cover and returned to the
sender unopened. If his address cannot thus be ascertained, the article itself will be opened in the
presence of the Manager and an inventory (R.L.O.-22) of the contents made and signed by him. If
sufficient information is obtained by a perusal or examination of its contents, the article will be
returned to the sender enclosed, together with the inventory, in a protecting cover, otherwise it will
be treated as a returned article and disposed of accordingly.
(3) The special fee of Two Rupees taxed by the office of delivery on an uninsured article
found to contain anything of which insurance is compulsory, is recoverable from the addressee on
the article being redirected to him by the R.L.O., and from the sender only when an article so taxed
is returned to him after having been refused by the addressee or when the addressee cannot be
found. Such articles, received in the R.L.O. from offices of posting for return to the senders, will
not be taxed with the special fee.
NOTE. – In the case of a registered article of the letter or parcel mail issued from the R.L.O. under
this rule for return to the sender, the original No. assigned to the article by the office of posting will still be
borned by it.