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10.23.4.3 Exemption From Postal Charges Under the Universal PostalConvention. Under the Universal Postal Convention, with the exception of air surcharges forairmail, letter-post items, postal parcels, and monetary articles originating in other countries andaddressed to, or sent by internees, either directly or through the National Protected PersonInformation Bureau and the Central Information Agency for protected persons, shall be exemptfrom all postal charges. 394Parcels shall be admitted free of postage up to a weight of 5 kg. 395 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 Internee Committee there for distribution to the internees. 396Items exempt from postal charges and internee parcels shall bear “Service des internéscivils” (Civilian internees service) and a translation in another language if appropriate. 397Postal administrations shall not be liable for the loss of, theft from, or damage to parcelsin the case of internee parcels. 398394 See Universal Postal Convention, art. 17(2), Dec. 14, 1989, 1687 UNTS 241, 252 (“Paragraph 1 [of Article 17]shall apply to letter-post items, postal parcels and monetary articles originating in other countries and addressed toor sent by civilian internees as defined by the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 relative to the protection ofcivilian persons in time of war, either direct or through the Information Bureaux and the Central InformationAgency prescribed in articles 136 and 140 respectively of that Convention.”). Consider Universal PostalConvention, art. 7(2.2), Oct. 11, 2012, reprinted in INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION,LETTER POST MANUAL, page C.8 (Berne 2013, Update 2 – Jan. 2015) (“The provisions set out under 2.1 shall alsoapply to letter-post items, postal parcels and postal payment services items originating in other countries andaddressed to or sent by civilian internees as defined by the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 relative to theprotection of civilian persons in time of war, either direct or through the offices mentioned in the Regulations of theConvention and of the Postal Payment Services Agreement.”).395 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, Update2 – Jan. 2015) (“Parcels shall be admitted free of postage up to a weight of 5 kilogrammes.”).396 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.”).397 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 ‘Service des 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) to Article 8 of theUniversal Postal Convention of Oct. 11, 2012, reprinted in INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE UNIVERSAL POSTALUNION, PARCEL POST MANUAL, page D.10 (2015) (“Every prisoner-of-war and civilian internee parcel and itsdispatch note shall bear, the former beside the address, one of the indications ‘Service des prisonniers de guerre’(Prisoner-of-war Service) or ‘Service des internés civils’ (Civilian Internees Service); these indications may befollowed by a translation in another language.”).700