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| Category | POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS | Organ of Promulgation | The State Council | Status of Effect | In Force |
| Date of Promulgation | 1990-11-12 | Effective Date | 1990-11-12 |
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Rules for the Implementation of the Postal Law of the People's Republic of China |
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Article 1 These Rules are formulated in accordance with the Postal Law of
the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the Postal Law).
Article 2 The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the People's
Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications) shall be the competent department of postal services under
the State Council and shall administer postal services throughout the country.
The administrative bureaus of post and telecommunications of various
provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central
Government (hereinafter referred to as the administrative bureaus of post and
telecommunications) shall be the regional administrative organs of postal
services, which shall administer postal services of respective regions.
Article 3 The municipality or county bureaus of post and
telecommunications (including the post offices, - the same below) shall be
public enterprises owned by the whole people that operate postal business
(hereinafter referred to as "Postal enterprises"), and, after being
authorized by the administrative bureaus of post and telecommunications, shall
be responsible for the administration of postal services of the respective
localities.
The branch post and telecommunications bureaus, the post and
telecommunications offices, the branch post bureaus, and the postal offices
shall be the branch offices that handle postal business (hereinafter referred
to as "the branch office"); the postal kiosks and newspaper and periodical
stands shall be the service points of postal enterprises.
The post and telecommunications agencies shall be considered as branch
offices of postal enterprises.
Article 4 Without the entrustment by the postal enterprises, no unit or
individual may operate posting and delivery of letters, postcards or other
articles with characteristics of mail, except as otherwise provided by the
State Council.
The letters refer to those carriers which transmit information by using
sealed envelopes. The other articles with characteristics of mail refer to
those carriers which transmit information by using such forms as symbols,
images, or sounds. The specific contents thereof shall be stipulated by the
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
Article 5 In case that a postal enterprise entrusts other units or
individuals with the handling of postal business, they shall reach an
agreement through consultation and sign entrustment contracts.
Article 6 All units and individuals that make use of the postal services
of China shall be generally called postal users (hereinafter referred to as
users).
Article 7 A postal enterprise shall provide users with fast, accurate,
safe and convenient postal services, and protect the lawful rights and
interests of users in making use of postal services.
Any unit or individual shall have the obligations to protect freedom and
privacy of correspondence, and the safety of postal materials; no unit or
individual may use postal services for activities forbidden by laws,
regulations and policies.
In the course of transportation and delivery of postal materials, no unit
or individual shall inspect or detain the postal materials under any pretext,
except when the inspectation of correspondence according to law by public
security organs, state security organs, or procuratorial organs is necessary
for the state security or the investigation of criminal offences.
Article 8 In the event that a public security organ, a state security
organ, or a procuratorial organ inspects or detains postal materials or
freezes remittances or savings deposits out of the necessity for the state
security or the investigation of a criminal offence, it is imperative for the
aforesaid organs to issue according to law notifications of the relevant
inspection, detention, or freezing to the postal enterprise or the
administrative bureau of post and telecommunications concerned at or above the
county level, and to make out a list of the specific items of postal
materials, remittances, or savings deposits; after going through the
procedures for inspection, detention or freezing, the postal enterprise shall
appoint specially-designated persons to be responsible for sorting out the
items in question, register them one by one, and then go through the hand-over
procedures; with respect to those postal materials, remittances or savings
deposits which need no further inspection, detention or freezing, or which
have been proved through investigation to have nothing to do with the case
concerned, they shall be returned to the postal enterprise without delay. In
case that in the course of inspection, detention or freezing the postal
materials, remittances or savings deposits are lost or damaged, the relevant
public security, state security, or procuratorial organ shall be responsible
for compensation.
Article 9 In case that a people's court, or a procuratorial organ
confiscates domestic postal materials, remittances or savings deposits, it
must present relevant legal documents, and go through the relevant procedures
with the postal enterprise and administrative bureau of post and
telecommunications at or above the county level. The decision on the
confiscation of incoming or outgoing international postal articles shall be
made by the Customs, which shall also complete the relevant procedures.
Article 10 In case that a unit concerned has the necessity to collect or
obtain evidence or consult the postal business archives, according to law,
it must obtain a written certificate issued by the public security organ, the
state security organ, the procuratorial organ, or the people's court, in the
place where the postal enterprise concerned is 1ocated, make a list of the
specific items of postal materials, and then go through the relevant
procedures with the postal enterprise and the administrative bureau of post
and telecommunications at or above the county level.
Article 11 No unit or individual may commit the following acts that
hamper the normal operations of postal services:
(1) to damage postal installations;
(2) to set up stalls or to stack up things in front of the entrance to, or
in the in-and-out passage ways of postal enterprises or their branch offices,
thereby hampering users to make use of postal services or blocking the passage
of postal vehicles;
(3) to make trouble willfully or disturb the normal order at the sites
where postal business is conducted;
(4) to hamper postal staff from executing their duties according to law,
or to seek a quarrel;
(5) to intercept postal means of transport, to hamper illegally the
transportation and delivery of postal materials, or force their way to get on
postal means of transport;
(6) to inspect or detain postal materials illegally;
(7) to commit other acts that hamper the postal enterprises or their Article 12 The standards for the establishment of postal enterprises and Article 13 The local people's governments at various levels shall Article 14 While constructing new districts in cities, isolated Article 15 When postal enterprises establish postal kiosks, newspaper and Article 16 Letter and newspaper boxes for receiving postal materials are Every construction unit of a residential building shall be installed, on The property right owners of residential buildings, or the administrative Article 17 Places for handling postal business, conveniently accessible Article 18 Any unit that, for the needs of construction, requisitions, Article 19 Postal enterprises shall handle the posting and delivery of Domestic postal materials refer to the postal materials exchanged within Article 20 Distribution business of domestic newspapers and magazines Article 21 When newspaper and magazine offices entrust the postal Article 22 Postal savings and postal remittances, which are financial Article 23 The specific categories of postal businesses and the Article 24 The basic postal rates of postal services refer to the postal The basic postal rates of postal services shall be stipulated by the Article 25 The basis for the formulation and adjustment of postal rates (1) to meet the social needs, on the condition that the cost expenses of (2) to adjust postal rates of domestic postal services in the light of the (3) to adjust postal rates of international postal sevices in accordance Article 26 Postage certificates issued by the Ministry of Post and Article 27 The international reply-coupons issued by the Universal Postal Article 28 Where the making of facsimiles of stamp patterns is No printing unit may undertake the printing of unapproved facsimiles of Article 29 Envelopes to be printed for use in correspondence must conform Article 30 Postcards to be printed must conform with the specification Postal enterprises at or above the county level may, with the approval of Article 31 Ordinary letters to be sent by compulsory service-men from Article 32 Users shall, in handling in or posting postal materials, Article 33 It shall be forbidden to post and deliver or to insert in (1) articles forbidden by law to be put in circulation or to be posted and (2) reactionary newspapers, magazines, and propaganda materials, or (3) explosive, combustible, corrosive, radioactive, poisonous, or any (4) articles that are harmful to public sanitation; (5) perishables; (6) various species of live animals; (7) various currencies; (8) articles that are not fit for delivery by post; (9) articles that are not properly packed so that they might jeopardize The articles mentioned in the preceding paragraph, which meet the Article 34 Articles to be posted and delivered in the country with Article 35 With respect to articles posted or delivered in violation of (1) to withdraw the articles in question from delivery; (2) to notify the sender to take back the articles within a prescribed (3) to transfer the articles to the department concerned to be disposed of (4) with respect to articles which have jeopardized personal safety, or The expenses entailed from the handling of the cases mentioned in items Article 36 With respect to newly-established enterprises or institutions, The postal enterprises concerned or their branch offices shall permit (1) possessing the conditions for passage of postal vehicles and postal (2) having the house numbers arranged in a unified way by the public (3) having installed letter and newspaper boxes or having set up offices (4) having completed due formalities where procedures for registration of Article 37 Postal materials shall be delivered in the following ways, (1) delivery by address: Postal materials of urban and rural residents shall be delivered in Postal materials of the rural and pastoral areas shall, in the light of Postal materials to be delivered to vessels shall be delivered to the (2) collection by users: Postal materials that must be collected by going through the procedures Article 38 In case that recipients receive vouchered postal materials, or In case that an acting recipient is entrusted, by a recipient (or by a The valid certifying documents shall include the resident's identification Article 39 In the event that a recipient, in receiving vouchered postal The specific requirements for the transportation and delivery of postal Article 40 In case a user has received postal materials by mistake, Article 41 When the personnel of a unit, who are in charge of incoming The personnel, who are in charge of incoming and outgoing mail, have the Article 42 The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and the The transport departments concerned shall, at railway stations, airports, With respect to newly-built, re-built, and expanded railway stations, Article 43 When a postal entrprise entrusts a transport department with Article 44 Postal materials, which have been contracted for Article 45 Vessels carrying postal materials shall fly the post flag; and Article 46 When a transport unit has contracted for the transportation of With the exception of the cause of force majeure, if any loss, shortage or In the event that a vessel carrying postal materials has met with perils Article 47 When vehicles, vessels and postal staff, which/who are Article 48 The postal enterprise shall, in accordance with the When the Customs inspects international postbags according to law, the Article 49 In case that a user sends postal materials which are subject Article 50 When the Customs and the quarantine office are inspecting With respect to international postal articles that are to be confiscated In the event that the international postal articles, which are placed Article 51 If the inspection of postal articles or the health and Article 52 The Customs shall, when handling according to law ownerless Article 53 The ways for the transmission of Customs documents for Article 54 Those who have violated the provisions in Article 11 of these Article 55 Those who have violated the provisions of Item 3 in Article 33 Article 56 Those who have forged, or falsely used the special postal mark Article 57 Those who, for the purpose of making profits, have forged Article 58 In case that postal staff have concealed, destroyed, Article 59 Those who have violated the provisions in the second paragraph Article 60 For any violation of the provisions of these Rules that Article 61 Those who have received or opened other person's letters or Article 62 The public security organs, the state security organs, and the Article 63 The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications may, in accordance Article 64 The power to interpret these Rules shall reside in the Article 65 These Rules shall go into effect as of the date of
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branch offices or postal staff from performing their normal work.
Chapter II The Establishment of Postal Enterprises and Postal
Installations
their branch offices shall be stipulated by the Ministry of Post and
Telecommnunications; the establishment and abolition of post enterprises shall
be approved by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications; the establishment
and abolition of branch offices shall be approved by the administrative
bureaus of post and telecommunications and be reported to the Ministry of Post
and Telecommunications for the record.
incorporate the establishment of postal enterprises and their branch offices
as well as the construction of various postal installations into their urban
and rural construction plans.
industrial and mining areas and residential districts, as well as transforming
large expanse of old urban districts, the planning and establishment of the
matching postal enterprises and their branch offices as well as the various
postal installations shall be carried out simultaneously.
periodical stands, pillar boxes, mail boxes or conduct mobile services
according to law, the units and individuals concerned shall provide
conveniences.
the matching facilities in residential buildings, and designing units shall
include them in the standard designs of the construction of residential
buildings.
the ground floor, with letter and newspaper boxes corresponding to the room
numbers of the residents; or letter and newspaper boxes shall be installed in
a place or room with easy access in the midst of buildings, for the residents
to receive postal materials.
units shall be responsible for the maintenance and change of letter and
newspaper boxes; the maintenance and change of letter and newspaper boxes may
also entrusted to the local postal enterprises or their branch offices, and
the expenses necessary for labour and materials shall be paid by the
entrusting units.
to passengers, shall be provided in relatively larger railway stations,
airports, ports and hotels; the postal enterprises shall provide various
postal services.
demolishes or removes a postal enterprise and its branch offices or the postal
installations shall consult with the local postal enterprise; and, under the
condition that the normal operations of postal correspondence are guaranteed,
the said unit shall remove the postal enterprise and its branch offices as
well as the postal installations to a proper place, or rebuild them, and the
expenses thus entailed shall be borne by the unit that conducts the
requisition, demolition and removing.
Chapter III Categories of Postal Business
domestic and international postal materials as well as the express delivery of
postal materials.
the territory of the People's Republic of China; those posted to or from the
regions of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan are called postal materials of the
regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan; international postal materials refer
to the postal materials exchanged between the People's Republic of China and
other countries or regions, and postal materials transmitted by way of the
territory of China.
refers to the business of distributing newspapers and magazines entrusted by
newspaper and magazine offices to the postal enterprises.
enterprises with the distribution of newspapers and magazines, they shall, in
accordance with the scope of the distribution of newspapers and magazines,
present to the appointed postal enterprises or the bureaus for distribution of
postal newspapers and magazines, certifications of having obtanied the
approval for publication by the competent department concerned and the
registration certificate for newspapers and periodicals. The postal
enterprises, which have the capacity for handling distribution business, shall
sign contracts for the distribution of newspapers and magazines with the
newspaper and magazine offices concerned in accordancc with the pertinent
provisions of the State, and in conformity with the principles of equality and
mutual benefit, of achieving unanimity through consultation, and of equal
prices and non-gratuitousness.
businesses handled by postal enterprises for the purpose of accumulating funds
for the State and facilitating economic transactions, shall be under the
unified administration of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and
shall, in accordance with the pertinent provisions of the State, accept the
guidance of the People's Bank of China in financial businesses. All relevant
banks shall provide conveniences for the businesses of postal savings and
postal remittances conducted by the postal enterprises.
classification of postal materials shall be stipulated by the Ministry of Post
and Telecommunications.
Chapter IV Postal Rates of Postal Services and Postage Certificates
rates for the domestic ordinary letters and postcards; the non-basic postal
rates refer to the postal rates of postal services other than the basic postal
rates.
competent department for the administration of commodity prices under thc
State Council, and then be submitted to the State Council for approval; the
non-basic postal rates shall be stipulated by the Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications.
of postal services shall be follows:
enterprises of postal correspondence and their capacity for development are
guaranteed;
changes in defrayment;
with the provisions of the Universal Postal Union, the international and
domestic cost expenses, and the changes in exchange rates for Renminbi (RMB).
Telecommunications and used as securities indicating that the charges or fees
for postal materials have already been paid shall include postage stamps, the
postage stamp patterns printed on stamped envelopes, stamped postcards,
stamped aerograms, and the "postage-paid" marking printed with a checking
machine.
Union may, in accordance with the international unified provisions, be
converted into postage stamps equal to a specific category of postal rates for
a specific class of weight; however, such international reply-coupons shall
not be converted into cash.
necessitated by work, it must be submitted, in accordance with the pertinent
provisions for the making of facsimiles of postage stamp patterns, to the
competent department for postage stamps under the Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications, or to the administrative bureau of post and
telecommunications concerned, for examination and approval.
stamp patterns or matters similar to postage stamps.
to the standards stipulated by the State, and the printing of such envelopes
shall be supervised by the local administrative bureaus of post and
telecommunications.
standards stipulated by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
the administrative bureaus of post and telecommunications, print and
distribute postcards with the inscription: "The People's Postal Service of
China" printed on them; if the printing of postcards is conducted by other
units, the printing operation shall be under the supervision of the local
administative bureaus of post and telecommunications, but the postcards shall
not carry the inscription "The People's Postal Service of China".
Chapter V The Posting and Delivery of Postal Materials and the
Compensation for Losses
places where they are stationed shall be posted and delivered free of charge,
but other armymen shall not post letters free of charge. Measures for the
administration of affairs concerning the posting and delivery of ordinary
letters by compulsory service-men shall be formulated by the Ministry of Post
and Telecommunications in conjunction with the department concerned of the
Chinese People's Liberation Army.
comply with the provisions stipulated by the Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications concerning the contents of postal materials, the
specifications for packaging and sealing, the writing forms, and the correct
writing of postcodes; especially the envelopes used by users for letters to be
posted must meet the standards stipulated by the State; the surface or cover
of postal materials and also the vouchers of postal services shall not be
printed (written) or stuck with any words or any other objects which have
nothing to do with the postal materials; the facade of postage certificates
shall not be smeared, or covered with any other objects; no forged,
facsimiled, cut and pieced together, or processed for decontamination postal
certificates may be used.
postal materials the following objects:
delivered;
pornographic articles;
other dangerous articles;
personal safety, or contaminate or damage other postal materials or equipment.
provisions of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications for delivery with
special approval, may be accepted and posted on the condition that safety is
guaranteed.
restricted quantities shall be stipulated by the Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications in conjunction with the departments concerned under the
State Council.
the pertinent provisions for forbidding or restricting their posting and
delivery, the postal enterprises or their branch offices shall, in accordance
with their categories, natures, or quantities, handle them respectively in the
following ways:
period of time, and, if the sender fails to do so when the prescribed time
limit expires, the said articles shall be disposed of right on the spot;
according to law;
have contaminated or damaged other postal materials, the sender shall hold the
liability for compensation.
(2) and (3) in the preceding paragraph shall be borne by the sender.
or newly-built residential buildings, the units concerned or the competent
departments of residential buildings shall go through the registration
procedures for the delivery of postal materials with the local postal
enterprises or their branch offices; in the event that a unit is to change its
name, or a recipient is to change his/her address, it/he/she shall notify the
local postal enterprise or its branch office of the change in advance, or go
through the procedures for the change to a new address of the recipient. The
postal enterprise shall make known to the public the place for registration
and the telephone number.
units or individuals with following the conditions to go through the
procedures for registration, and shall within 90 days from the date of
registration, make arrangements for delivery:
staff to execute their duties;
security organs;
for incoming and outgoing mail; or
both the Chinese and foreign names are required according to relevant
regulations.
except as otherwise provided by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications:
accordance with the addresses of the recipients to the mailboxes or to the
offices for incoming and outgoing mail installed at the entrances to the
courtyards of single-storey houses or on the ground floors of the storeyed
buildings. Postal materials of units, of the affiliated institutions to the
units and individuals of the units, as well as of users living in the
dormitories within the courtyards shall be delivered to the offices for
incoming and outgoing mail of the units. The office for incoming and outgoing
mail shall be set up on the ground floor of storeyed building; if two or more
separate units share a same place, they shall decide through consultation on a
single site for receiving postal materials in a unified way. If it is necessary
to deliver postal materials and newspapers and magazines upstairs, the users
shall consult with the postal enterprise concerned or its branch office, and,
in accordance with pertinent provisions, pay charges for such special services.
specific conditions of communications and the quantities of postal materials,
be delivered generally to a fixed place at a township or an administrative
village; with respect to postal materials of places under a township or an
administrative village, the people's government of the township or the
villagers committee shall consult with the postal enterprise concerned or its
branch office to find a proper way of delivering postal materials to the
recipients.
office for incoming and outgoing mail of a department to which the said
vessels are subordinate.
with the postal enterprise or its branch office by presenting the written
notice for receiving them, postal materials addressed to the number of a post
office box (a mailbox used exclusively by a particular user), postal materials
deposited at the post office for collection, postal materials which have
exceeded the prescribed weight for delivery by address and postal materials in
a large quantity shall be collected by users.
remittees receive remittances, they shall present their valid certifying
documents to the postal enterprise concerned or to its branch office, and
shall also affix their seals to, or sign their names on, the relevant vouchers.
remittee), with the receiving of vouchered postal materials (or remittances),
the said acting recipient shall present the valid certifying documents of the
recipient (or the remittee) and of the acting recipient; and, after the postal
enterprise, or its branch office, has verified and confirmed the documents,
the acting recipient shall receive the postal materials (or remittances) by
affixing his/her seal to, or signing his/her name on, the relevant voucher.
card, the residence booklet, and the employee's card.
materials, has discovered that the wrapper (of postal materials) has been torn
or damaged, he/she shall announce this on the spot and check the contents. If
the shortage or danmage of the contents has been definitely caused by the
negligence of the postal enterprise or its branch office, or if the negligence
of the postal enterprise or its branch office has caused the loss or damage of
vouchered postal materials, the postal enterprise or its branch office shall
make compensation in accordance with the pertinent provisions. In the event
that the loss, damage of postal matters or shortage of contents has resulted
from the fault of the personnel in charge of the incoming and outgoing mail in
the recipient's work unit, such personnel shall hold the prescribed liability
for compensation.
materials shall be stipulated by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications,
and shall be made known to the public. If the transportation and delivery of
postal materials have violated the provisions formulated by the Ministry of
Post and Telecommunications, the postal enterprise or its branch office
concerned shall make compensations to the users; and the specific measures
for making the compensation shall be stipulated by the Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications.
he/she shall return them, in good time, to the postal enterprise or its branch
office; postal materials opened by a user by mistake shall be re-sealed and
signed by the said user and returned to the postal enterprise or its branch
office, and the said user shall keep secret the contents of the postal
materials opened by mistake.
and outgoing mail, are taking over vouchered postal materials, they shall
check the number or quantity of the postal materials carefully to make sure
that no mistake is made before they affix their seal, for acknowledgement of
receipt, to the detailed list of the postal materials received.
responsibility to protect and despatch, without delay, various categories of
postal materials; they shall not open without permission, conceal, destroy or
discard, postal materials, or tear off postage stamps from postal materials.
Chapter VI The Transportation, Customs Examination and Quarantine
Inspection of Postal Materials
administrative bureaus of post and telecommunications shall timely inform the
transport departments concerned of the changing conditions of the direction of
flow and rate of flow of postal materials to be transported. Various
transport departments shall, in accordance with the needs of postal
correspondence, give priority to the provision of valid train numbers, flight
numbers and shipping space.
port and wharves, make proper arrangements for sites, in-and-out passage ways,
premises for loading, unloading and storing postal materials as well as
information installations for circulating information about the conditions of
driving and navigation.
airports, ports and wharves, it shall be necessary to work out a unified plan
of making arrangements for sites and passageways for storing and
transshipment of postal materials, and the expenses thus entailed for the
capital construction shall be borne by the postal enterprises.
the transportation of postal materials, an agreement for the transportation of
postal materials shall be concluded.
transportation by a transport unit, shall have the priority over the
transportation of ordinary goods. In the event that, for one reason or
another, the shipment has to be suspended temporarily, or the shipping time
or berthing place has been changed, the transport unit shall inform the postal
enterprise or its branch office of the situation without delay.
various ports concerned shall give priority of clearance to vessels that fly
the post flag.
postal materials, except for where the postal enterprise or its branch office
sends personnel to escort the transportation, it shall go through the
formalities with the postal enterprise or its branch office for handing over,
and signing for the receipt of, relevant postal materials.
damage has happened to postal materials under the safe-keeping of a transport
unit or on the way of transportation, the transport unit concerned shall
compensate therefor in accordance with the provisions in the agreement for the
transportation of postal materials.
of the sea and must jettison the goods it carries, it must not jettison the
postal materials it carries until the last minute.
carrying out the task of transporting and delivering postal materials, are
passing bridges, ferry crossings, tunnels or inspection stations, the
departments concerned shall give them priority in clearance. When postal
vehicles bearing the special postal marks are transporting and delivering
postal materials, they may, on the strength of the pass verified and issued by
the public security organs, take the routes close to traffic and park in the
no-parking sectors without restriction. In the event that postal vehicles or
postal staff have violated traffic rules and regulations in the course of
transporting or delivering postal materials, the competent departments shall
give them clearance after recording the cases, and deal with them afterwards,
when they have carried out their tasks of transportation or delivery.
operational timetable formulated on the basis of the transporting vehicles'
time of arrival at a station (a port) and time of departure from a station (a
port), and also with time limit for transportation or delivery, inform the
Customs of any change in such timetable 3 days in advance. The Customs shall,
in accordance with the operational timetable notified by the postal
enterprise, send personnel to the site to supervise and handle international
postbags, and to inspect incoming and outgoing international postal articles;
if the personnel sent by the Customs fail to arrive at the site when the time
limit expires, the Customs shall be held responsible for the consequences
caused by the delay of the operational time limit.
inspection shall be carried out in the presence of the users at the place
where the Customs establishment is located. In the event that the recipient or
sender of postal materials is unable to be present at the site, the Customs
shall open the postbags for inspections, with the cooperation of postal staff
on the scene. The postbags, which have been opened for inspection, shall be
sealed up again jointly by the Customs and the postal enterprise with sealing
marks or stamps of both. The printed matters opened for inspection according
to law by the Customs shall be sealed up again with a Customs sealing mark or
stamp.
to health and quarantine inspection or animal and plant quarantine inspection,
the postal materials must be attached with a quarantine certificate. The
quarantine offices shall inspect and give clearance to the postal materials
without delay, in order to guarantee the time limit for transportation or
delivery of the postal materials.
international postal articles or conducting quarantine inspection or postal
materials according to law, they shall take proper care of them; if it is
necessary to seal them up for safekeeping, in addition to sending a notice to
the sender or the recipient, the Customs and the quarantine office shall go
through the hand-over procedures with the postal enterprises or its branch
office, and be responsible for the safekeeping; the period of sealing up for
safekeeping shall not exceed 45 days. If, under special circumstances, the
period of sealing up for safekeeping needs to be extended, the consent from
the postal enterprise or its branch office and from the sender or the
recipient shall be obtained, and this shall be done on the condition that the
said international postal articles or postal materials being sealed up shall
not suffer any losses. When the seal-up international postal articles or
postal materials are returned to the postal enterprise or its branch office,
the postal staff shall check carefully to see if they are all in good
condition betore they sign to acknowledge the hand-over.
according to law, or postal materials that, after health and quarantine
inspection and animal and plant quarantine inspection, must be destroyed, the
Customs or the quarantine office shall issue a written notice concerning the
confiscation or quarantine disposal, and also notify without delay, the sender
or the recipient and the postal enterprise or its branch office.
under inspection and sealed up for safekeeping according to law, are found to
have been lost, short of number or quantity, or damaged, the Customs or the
quarantine office sha11 be held responsible for compensation or for handling
the case.
quarantine inspection on postal materials carried out according to law, calls
for the use of sites or premises of the postal enterprise or its branch
office, the case shall be handled, through consultation, by the postal
enterprise jointly with the departments concerned in accordance with the
needs of work and objective possibilities.
international postbages, pay the relevant postal expenses.
outgoing international postal materiales shall be decided on by the General
Customs Administration jointly with the Ministry of Post and
Telecommunications through consultation.
Chapter Vll Penalty Provisions
Rules shall be penalized by the department concerned according to the
pertinent provisions of the State and in the light of the seriousness of the
cases; those who have violated the pertinent provisions concerning public
security shall be penalized by the public security organs in accordance with
the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Administration Penalties
for Public Security.
of these Rules but have not caused serious consequences shall be dealt with by
the public security organs in accordance with the Regulations of the People's
Republic of China on Administration Penalties for Public Security.
and the postal uniform, or the postal date-stamp, postal tongs, and postbags
and other special postal articles, shall be penalized with a fine of 1,500
yuan or less by the administrative bureau of post and telecommunications or by
a unit authorized by it; in addition, the relevant articles mentioned above
shall be confiscated.
postage certificates, facsimiled postage stamp patterns without permission, or
printed postcards with the inscription "The People's Postal Service of China",
shall be penalized with a fine of 5,000 yuan or less by the administrative
bureau of post and Telecommunications or by a unit authorized by it; in
addition, their illegal gains and the illegal articles shall be confiscated.
In case that a user has purposefully used postage certificates, which are not
in conformity with the pertinent provisions, on postal materials he/she posts,
the postal enterprise or its branch office shall refuse to dispatch them,
notify the sender to withdraw them within a fixed period of time, and, in
addition, impose on the sender a fine equal to 10 times the postage the said
user ought to pay; if it is impossible to notify the sender, or the sender
fails to go through the formalities for withdrawing the aforesaid postal
materials when the time limit expires, the postal materials shall be disposed
of as ownerless ones.
discarded, opened without permission, or stolen postal materials, or have
embezzled or falsely claimed a user's remittance, the postal enterprise shall
recover the illicit money and the stolen goods, may concurrently impose a fine
on the offenders, and may even, in accordance with the seriousness of the
circumstances, impose disciplinary sanctions on them. The specific measures
shall be formulated by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
of Article 41 of these Rules shall have their responsibilities investigated in
accordance with the provisions in Article 36 of The Postal Law.
constitutes a crime, the criminal responsibilities shall be investigated by
the judicial organs according to law.
mail by mistake but refused to return the letters or mail to the recipient, or
who have already returned the letters or mail but have disclosed the contents
of the letters or mail, thereby having encroached upon other person's right of
freedom of correspondence, shall have their responsibilities investigated in
accordnace with the provisions in Article 36 of The Postal Law.
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
procuratorial organs, as mentioned in these Rules, refer to the public
security organs, the state security organs, and the procuratorial organs at or
above the county level.
with these Rules, formulate pertinent rules and regulations.
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
promulgation.
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