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September 5. 1937 NETHERLANDS--PARCEL POST eptember 20, 1937 ARTICLE XX. Recall and change of address. So long as a parcel has not been delivered to the addressee, the sender may recall it or cause its address to be changed. The Postal Administration of the country of origin may collect and retain, for this service, the charge fixed by its regulations. The requests for re- call or change of address of parcels to be delivered in the United States of America shall be addressed to the Central Administration at Washington; those relating to parcels for delivery in the Nether- lands shall be addressed to the offices of destination. ARTICLE XXI. Certificate of mailing. Receipts. The sender will, on request at the time of mailing an ordinary (uninsured) parcel, receive a certificate of mailing from the post office where the parcel is mailed, on a form provided for the pur- pose; and each country may fix a reasonable fee therefor. The sender of an insured parcel receives without charge, at the time of posting, a receipt for his parcel. Recall and change of address. Certificate of mail- ing. Furnished senderon request. Receipt. ARTICLE XXII. Return receipts and Return receipts and inquiries. inquiries. 1. The sender of an insured parcel may obtain an advice of de- Advice of deliery; livery upon payment of such additional charges, if any, as the ge country of origin of the parcel shall stipulate and under the con- ditions laid down in the Regulations. 2. A fee may be charged, at the option of the country of origin, Inquiry charge. on a request for information as to the disposal of an ordinary parcel and also for an insured parcel made after it has been posted if the sender has not already paid the special fee to obtain an advice of delivery. 3. A fee may also be charged, at the option of the country of ty origin, in connection with any complaint of any irregularity which prima facie was not due to the fault of the Postal Service. AR'rICLE XXIII. Missent parcels. Misent Parcel. Ordinary parcels, when missent, are reforwarded to their correct Ordinary parels. destination by the most direct route at the disposal of the reforward- ing Administration. They must not be charged with customs or other charges by that Administration. Insured parcels, when mis- Insured parces. sent, may not be reforwarded to their destination except as insured mail. If this is impossible they must be returned to origin. When the reforwarding involve 1 return of the parcel to the office tReefud,ifparcelre of origin, the retransmitting Administration refunds to that office the credits received and reports the error by a Bulletin of Verification. When the reforwarding involves dispatch of a parcel to a third t Rforrdint to a country and if the amount credited to the retransmitting Adminis- tration is insufficient to cover the expenses of retransmission which it has to defray, the retransmitting Administration allows to the Ad- ministration to which it forwards the parcel the credits due it; it then recovers the amount of the deficiency by claiming it from the office of exchange from which the missent parcel was directly re- ceived. The reason for this claim is notified to the latter by means of a Bulletin of Verification. 'So In original. 301