Post office guide part i - India Post

*See meaning of the term “delivery” in Clause 35.
(h) in the case of the loss of halves of currency notes;
(i) in the case of damage arising from the nature of the article insured; or
(j) where the insured article contained anything the transmission of which by post is
prohibited.
183. Compensation. – (1) Compensation will be payable one month after the date on
which intimation of loss is given by the sender to the Post Office, except in cases in which the
Head of the Circle may consider that the circumstances demand the withholding of payment
pending enquiry.
(2) If after compensation has been paid for the loss of a postal article or any portion of its
contents, the contents or any portion thereof are subsequently recovered, the recovered contents
will be dealt with as follows, namely :-
(a) If the value of the recovered contents added to the amount of compensation paid is not
in excess of the amount of loss, the recovered contents will be restored to the sender.
(b) If the value of the recovered contents added to the amount of the compensation paid is
in excess of the amount of the loss, the Post Office will be entitled either to restore the
recovered contents to the sender on his repaying the amount of such excess or to retain
and dispose of so much of the recovered contents as may be held by the Head of the
Circle to represent such excess and restore the rest of the recovered contents, if any, to
the sender.
184. Cases in which Insurance is compulsory. – (1) Coin, bullion, platinum, precious
stones, jewellery, government currency notes or bank notes and articles of gold or silver may be
sent by post only in insured letters, insured parcels. If a letter or parcel presented at the post office
window is found to contain any such object of value, it will not be accepted for transmission by
post, unless the sender insures it; and, if an uninsured article manifestly containing any such object
of value is found in course of transmission by post it will be either intercepted and returned to the
sender, or forwarded to destination and delivered to the addressee subject to the payment of a fee
of two rupees. The payment of this fee will not impose any liability on the Central Government.
NOTE : The fee of two rupees imposed under this rule will be recovered from the sender if the article is
refused by the addressee or the addressee cannot be found.
EXPLANATION: In this rule, the expression “articles of gold or silver” includes articles made wholly or
partly or gold or silver, but not coins and electro or other plated goods. The expression “coin” does
not include out counterfeit coin remitted on behalf of the Issue Department of the Reserve bank of
India and Miints. The expression “currency notes” does not include defaced notes, i.e. notes from
which the signature has been cut off after cancellation, remitted on behalf of Issue Department of the
Reserve Bank of India. The expression “jewellery” includes watches the cases of which are entirely
or mainly composed of gold, silver or platinum.