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Parcels shall be admitted free of postage up to a weight of 5 kg. 462 The weight limit shallbe increased to 10 kg in the case of parcels the contents of which cannot be split up and ofparcels addressed to a camp or the POW Representatives there for distribution to the POWs. 463Items exempt from postal charges and POW parcels shall bear “Service des prisonniersde guerre” (“Prisoner-of-war Service) and a translation in another language, if appropriate. 464Postal administrations shall not be liable for the loss of, theft from, or damage to parcelsin the case of POW parcels. 4659.20.4.4 Costs of Transporting Relief Shipments Outside the Post Office. If reliefshipments intended for POWs cannot be sent through the post office by reason of weight or forany other cause, the cost of transportation shall be borne by the Detaining Power in all thethe Postal Payment Services Agreement, shall be exempt from all postal charges, with the exception of airsurcharges.”).461 Universal Postal Convention, art. 17, Dec. 14, 1989, 1687 UNTS 241, 251-52 (“Belligerents apprehended andinterned in a neutral country shall be classed with prisoners of war proper so far as the application of the foregoingprovisions is concerned.”). Consider Universal Postal Convention, art. 7(2.1), Oct. 11, 2012, reprinted inINTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION, LETTER POST MANUAL, page C.8 (Berne 2013,Update 2 – Jan. 2015) (same).462 Universal Postal Convention, art. 17(4), Dec. 14, 1989, 1687 UNTS 241, 252 (“Parcels shall be admitted free ofpostage up to a weight of 5 kg.”). Consider Universal Postal Convention, art. 7(2.4), Oct. 11, 2012, reprinted inINTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION, LETTER POST MANUAL, page C.8 (Berne 2013,Update 2 – Jan. 2015) (“Parcels shall be admitted free of postage up to a weight of 5 kilogrammes.”).463 Universal Postal Convention, art. 17(4), Dec. 14, 1989, 1687 UNTS 241, 252 (“The weight limit shall beincreased to 10 kg in the case of parcels the contents of which cannot be split up and of parcels addressed to a campor the prisoners’ representatives there (‘hommes de confiance’) for distribution to the prisoners.”). ConsiderUniversal Postal Convention, art. 7(2.4), Oct. 11, 2012, reprinted in INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE UNIVERSALPOSTAL UNION, LETTER POST MANUAL, page C.8 (Berne 2013, Update 2 – Jan. 2015) (“The weight limit shall beincreased to 10 kilogrammes in the case of parcels the contents of which cannot be split up and of parcels addressedto a camp or the prisoners’ representatives there (‘hommes de confiance’) for distribution to the prisoners.”).464 Consider Letter Post Regulations, Article RL 112 to Article 7 of the Universal Postal Convention of Oct. 11,2012, reprinted in INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION, LETTER POST MANUAL, page C.11(2015) (“Items exempt from postal charges shall bear, on the address side in the top right-hand corner, the followingindications, which may be followed by a translation: ‘Service des prisonniers de guerre’ (Prisoners-of-war service)or ‘Servicedes internés civils’ (Civilian internees service) for the items mentioned in article 7.2 of the Conventionand article RL 111 and the forms relating to them;”); Parcel Post Regulations, Article RC 112(2), reprinted inINTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION, PARCEL POST MANUAL, page D.10 (2015) (“Everyprisoner-of-war and civilian internee parcel and its dispatch note shall bear, the former beside the address, one of theindications ‘Service des prisonniers de guerre’ (Prisoner-of-war Service) or ‘Service des internés civils’ (CivilianInternees Service); these indications may be followed by a translation in another language.”).465 Postal Parcels Agreement, art. 41(2)(f), Dec. 14, 1989, 1687 UNTS 346, 369 (“Postal administrations shall not beliable for the loss of, theft from or damage to parcels in the case of prisoner-or-war or civilian internee parcels.”).574

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