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The office of destination, after having duly completed the Form B, returns it in an envelope officially registered to the office of origin. When the sender of a registered article demands an acknowledgment of delivery subsequent to the posting of such article, the office of origin reproduces upon a Form 8., to which a stamp representing the fee for an acknowledgment of delivery has been affixed, an accurate description of the registered article (nature of the article, office of origin, date of posting, number, and superscription). This form is transmitted from Administration to Administration with the indication of the mail in which the article sought for has been delivered to the service of exchange from the office corresponding therewith. The office of destination completes the form and returns it to the office of origin, as prescribed by Section 3 preceding. If an acknowledgment of delivery regularly demanded by the sender at the time of posting be not delivered to the office of origin after a reasonable period has elapsed, application may be instituted for the missing acknowledgment in accordance with the rules outlined in Section 4 preceding. Nevertheless, in the latter case, instead of affixing a postage stamp to the Form 8., the office of origin writes at the head of the form the inscription, " Application for acknowledgment of delivery." Article 14. Registered articles marked with trade charges (new). Such articles are not accepted by Australian Administrations. Article 15. Post-cards, XVI. Post cards must be sent unenclosed, and must bear at the top of the address side the title Carte Postale clearly expressed in French, or with a sublineary translation in that language. This title is followed as far as possible by the words—■ ( Union Postal Universelle Cote reserve a I'adresse | Universal Postal Union This side reserved for the address J The remainder of the-face is reserved for the postage stamps, for indications relating to the Postal Service (registered, acknowledgment of delivery, &c), and for the address, which may be written in manuscript, or be shown upon a gummed label not exceeding 2 centimetres by 5. (f by 2 inches.) When the sender uses an inland post-card for foreign service, this card is forwarded, provided it bears the printed or written title, " Carte Postale," or the equivalent of this title in the language of the country of origin. In addition, the sender has the right to indicate on the face his name and address, either by means of a stamp, an autograph stamp, or other typographical process. Engravings or advertisements may be printed on the face. Nevertheless, they may in no way interfere with the clear indication of the address, as well as the affixing of stamps and notices of the Postal Service. It is forbidden to join to or attach anything whatever to post-cards except the postage stamps and labels mentioned in the first Section and in Section 4 of the present Article. Post-cards may not exceed the following dimensions : —Length, 14 centimetres, (5| inches), width, 9 centimetres (3J inches). Reply-paid post-cards must bear on the address side of the first half the title, " Post Card, Reply Paid," and on the second half, " Post Card Reply." Each of the two halves must comply with the conditions required for the single card ; they are folded one upon the other, and may not be closed by any means whatever. The sender of a reply-paid post-card is permitted to indicate his name and address on the face of the "reply half," either in manuscript or by affixing a label thereon. The prepayment of the reply half by means of the postage stamps of the country which has issued the card is valid only if the two halves of the reply-paid card are received attached from the country of origin, and if the reply half is dispatched to the destination of that country. In the contrary case it is treated as an unpaid card. Post-cards, both single and reply paid, emanating from private industry are admitted to international circulation if agreeable to the laws of the country of origin, and provided that they fulfil the conditions imposed by the present Article for admission at the reduced tariff in the exchanges from country to country for the post-cards issued by the Postal Administrations, and that they be in conformity with the post-cards issued by the office of origin, at all events in regard to size and substance of paper. Post-cards not fulfilling, as to prescribed indications, dimensions, external form, &c, the conditions laid down by the present article for this class of correspondence, are treated as letters. Nevertheless, post-cards originally addressed to the inland service of the country of origin, and redirected to another country, are admitted to the benefits of the reduced rates, if they comply with the conditions laid down for the circulation of post-cards to the interior of the country of origin, and do not exceed the dimensions fixed by Section 2 preceding.

Sec P. France.

Sec. 4. France.

Sec. 5. France.

Sec. 1. France.

Switzerland.

Sec. 2.

Sec. 3.

Sec. 4.

Sec. 5.

Sec. 6.

Sec. 7.

New paragraph. Austria.