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Return and disposal of undelivered parcels

Post Office Regulations, reg. 78 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Parcels which for any reason are undeliverable shall be dealt with in accordance with arrangements from time to time made between the Postmaster General and the Postal Administrations concerned. (2) Where under any such arrangement an outgoing parcel is received from a place outside this country for return to the sender, there shall be charged upon such parcel and paid by the sender additional postage according to the rate chargeable under any such arrangement, and the parcel shall not be given up to the sender except upon payment of such additional postage and of all charges of any kind to which the parcel may have become liable under the provisions of this regulation. (3) Where under any such arrangement a parcel is not returned to the sender, or the sender or the addressee refuses or fails to pay the charges to which the parcel has become liable under this regulation, the parcel shall be sold, destroyed, or otherwise dealt with, in the manner prescribed in relation to undeliverable inland parcels by regulation 68 of these (4) Where an incoming parcel cannot be delivered as originally addressed and under any such arrangement the name and address of a substituted addressee has been furnished by the sender and the parcel is forwarded to the substituted address, there shall be charged and paid by the addressee additional postage at the inland rate chargeable for transmission from the original to the substituted address.
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Return and disposal of undelivered parcels — Cap. 228s01 s. 78 · Belize Law