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62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION-JULY 5, 1947 3363 2. Phonograph records mailed as Phonopost articles shall be in- closed in strong unsealed envelopes. 3. The sender shall mention in conspicuous characters on the front of the envelope, in addition to the ordinary annotations, the word Phonopost. It is permissible to print on the front, in one or more languages, an explanatory notice concerning the manner of reproducing the record. 4. It is permitted to inclose, adequately protected, the necessary needles for the reproduction of the record. TITLE III. Registered Articles. Return Receipts. SOLE CHAPTER. ARTICLE 128. Registered articles. 1. Registered articles shall bear on the address side the conspicuous notation Recommande (registered), or a similar notation in the language of the country of origin. 2. With the exceptions below, no special conditions as to form, sealing or wording of the address are required for such articles. 3. Articles of correspondence which bear an address written in pencil or consisting of initials are not accepted for registration. However, the address of articles other than those which are sent in transparent-panel envelopes may be written with indelible pencil. 4. Registered articles shall bear, in the left-hand corner of the address side, a label conforming to Form C 4 hereto appended, with A n t e , p. 3251. indication in Latin characters of the letter R, the name of the office of origin and the serial number of the article. However, it is per- missible for Administrations whose domestic legislation at present opposes the use of labels to defer the adoption of this measure and to use, for the designation of registered articles, stamps 'reading Recommande (registered) or R, beside which shall appear the indi- cation of the office of origin and that of the serial number. Such stamps shall likewise be applied in the left-hand corner of the address side. 5. No serial number shall be placed on the front of registered articles by the intermediate Administrations. ARTICLE 129. Return receipt. 1. Articles for which the sender requests a return receipt shall reMia" of return bear, on the front, the conspicuous notation: Avis de reception (return receipt); or the imprint of a stamp: A. R. The sender shall inscribe his name and address on the outside of the article, in Latin characters. 2. They are accompanied by a form of the consistency of a post Presibedform. card, light red in color, conforming to Form C 5 hereto appended; Ate, p . 3254