PA Exam Materials – 163 POSTALMANUAL VOLUME V (PO & RMS GENERAL REGULATIONS)
• A labelled bundle is a collection of faced unregistered articles of the letter mail securely tied with a check-slip at the top.
• Station bundles are prepared, ordinarily, when the number of articles either paid or unpaid-for any office exceeds fourteen.
• When a sorting bundle is prepared for a State, a clearly defined tract of country, or a foreign country, it is termed a territorial bundle.
• A check slip is a label tied to the top of the labelled bundle; the form is printed on paper of different colours, pink for ordinary paid and unpaid bundles white or ordinary sorting bundles and blue with the words ‘Air mail” for foreign air mails bundles.
• A Check slip(MO-70) printed in red ink on white or Badami paper is prescribed for use in preparing Money order bundles for despatch to destination and the number of money order included in the bundle is required to be noted on this check-s.
• A mail bag containing unregistered and registered articles to be carried by an air service under the All up scheme is called an airmail bag.
• A registered bundle is a collection of faced, uninsured registered articles of the letter mall placed, together with a registered list, in a prescribed form of envelope, carefully gummed and sealed, tied and sealed in the ordinary way, with the label showing distinctly that it is a "registered bundle"
• A registered bag contains cash bag, ordinary and VP registered letters and packets, insured envelopes, registered bundles, insured bundles ,ordinary and VP MO bundles ties with a check slip, and a registered list.
• An insured bundle is a collection of insured letters enclosed, together with a registered list, in an insured envelope, or if necessary, in a dosuti bag, properly closed and sealed , showing distinctly on the envelope or the label of the bag that it is an "Insured Bundle".
• An insured bag is intended to give cover to insured parcels (including insured VP parcels) so as to afford them greater security.
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