Forwarding of air-mail correspondence
1. Administrations which make use of communications by air for the
transportation of their own surcharged air-mail correspondence are bound
to forward by those same routes the surcharged air-mail correspondence received
by them from other Administrations. The same applies to unsurcharged
air-mail correspondence, provided the available capacity of the
planes permit~ it.
2. Administrations having no air service forward air-mail correspondence
by the most rapid means utilized by the mails. The same applies if, for any
reason, forwarding by such other means offers advantages over an existing
air route.
3. If occasion arises, account is taken of the indications of routing placed
on surcharged air-mail articles by the senders, provided the routing asked
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for is normally utilized for the transportation of mails on the stretch concerned,
and that dispatch by such route does not result in considerable delay in the
arrival of the articles at destination.
4. Closed air-mail dispatches shall be sent by the route requested by the
Administration of the country of origin, provided that such route is utilized
by the Administration of the transit country for the transmission of its own
dispatches.
5. In order to establish the mostsuitable route, the office of origin may send
to the office of destination of the dispatch a trial bulletin in accordance with
Form AV 1 hereto appended; 13 the bulletin must be included in the dispatch
and attached to the letter bill. The trial bulletin, duly filled out, shall be returned
to the office of origin by the first available air mail.
6. When, as the result of an accident occurring en route, a plane can not
continue its trip and deliver the mail at the stops scheduled, the personnel on
board shall deliver the dispatches to the post office nearest to the place of the
accident or the one best qualified to reforward the mails. If the personnel is
prevented from doing this, the post office concerned, after being informed
of the accident, shall make every possible effort without delay to take delivery
of the mail. The dispatches must be forwarded to the offices of destination
by the most rapid means after determining the condition of the correspondence
and reconditioning it if damaged.
7. The circumstances of the accident and the facts determined shall be
reported by bulletin of verification to the offices of destination of the dispatches
involved; a copy of the bulletin shall be sent to the office of origin
of the dispatches. In addition, the Administration of the country to which
the air line belongs shall advise the Administrations concerned by telegram
of all the particulars of the disposal of the mai