| AGREEMENT RELATING TO THE LETTER POST BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT
OF INDIA AND HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT OF
NEPAL
New Delhi, 8 September 1964 The Government of India and His Majesty's Government of Nepal, RECALLING the provisions of Article 8 of the Universal Postal Convention of Ottawa 1957, and DESIRING to establish an efficient Postal Service between India and Nepal, HAVE agreed as follows : Article 1
Application of the UPU Convention The provisions of the Universal Postal Convention, of the Final Protocol to the Universal Postal Convention and of the Detailed Regulations
for implementing the Universal Postal Convention, shall govern matters not expressly regulated by the provisions of the present Agreement.
Article 2
Exchange of Surface and Air Mails 1. Surface mails shall be exchanged at a number of offices along the border mutually agreed upon by the two Postal Administrations.
The staff for conveying such mails between the offices shall be provided by either of the two Administrations. The cost of this
conveyance shall, unless otherwise agreed upon by the two Administrations, be shared equally between the two Administrations on the
basis of periodically adjusted accounts. 2. The mails of one Administration which transit through the territory of the other Administration shall, as regards charges payable
to the transiting country, be governed by the provisions of the Universal Postal Convention. Thus the Nepalese mails sent from
one part of Nepal to another part thereof or to any other country, transiting through India, shall be paid for by His Majesty's Government
of Nepal in accordance with the provisions of the Universal Postal Convention. 3. Air mails shall be exchanged via such routes as may be mutually agreed upon by the Postal Administrations of the two countries.
Article 3
Correspondence, Charges and General Conditions 1. The term “items of correspondence” referred to in this Article applies to letters, letter-cards/aerogrammes, single and reply
post cards, book packets, sample packets, blind literature packets and registered newspapers. 2. Items of correspondence shall be exchanged between the two countries on postage rates and postal fees applicable to particular
categories of correspondence concerned in the inland service of the originating country or such higher rates or fees as may be decided
upon by the Postal Administration of the originating country. 3. Any service which exists in the inland service of one of the Postal Administrations but not in the service of the other administration,
shall also be covered by this Agreement. The international rates shall apply to such a service. 4. The limits of weights and dimensions shall not exceed the limits as are applicable for items of correspondence in the inland post
of the country of destination and of the country of origin. Article 4
Air Mail Transmission First class mails viz. letters, letter-cards/aerogrammes, single and reply post cards originating in either country and destined
to the other shall, whether surcharged or not, be afforded air conveyance to the extent air services are available for the speedy
transmission of the mails. The Administration of destination shall not recover any charge from the Administration of origin for air
conveyance on its internal sectors. Article 5
Change of Rates Any change of rates applicable to items of correspondence made by one Postal Administration shall be intimated as soon as possible
to the other Administration. Article 6
Details of Procedure The Postal Administrations of the two countries shall settle by mutual agreement procedural details relating to exchange, of correspondence.
Article 7
Existing Arrangements This Agreement shall replace the existing arrangements relating to postal service between the two countries except to the extent
stipulated through exchange of letters. Article 8
Entry into Force This Agreement shall be subject to ratification. The instruments of ratification shall be exchanged at New Delhi. The Agreement shall
enter into force with effect from the l3th April, 1965. It shall thereafter continue to be in force until it is terminated by one
Government giving six months’ notice in writing to the other.IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, duly authorised for that purpose, have signed this Agreement in two originals. DONE at New Delhi, this the Eighth day of September, 1964. For the Government of India Sd /-
M. DAYAL
Member (Posts),
Posts and Telegraphs Board
and Ex-Officio Joint Secretary. For His Majesty's Government of Nepal Sd /-
YADU NATH KHANAL
Royal Nepalese Ambassador in India.
No. 26/1/60-CF
Dated, the 8th September , 1964
M. DAYAL
Member (Posts)
Posts and Telegraphs Board. Your Excellency, I have the honour to refer to Articles 2 and 7 of the Agreement relating to the letter post between our two Governments, signed by
us today, and to the following understanding reached between us. 2. Mails which are exchanged between the exchange offices of Nepal as specified in Annexure I will be conveyed through the intermediary
services of India. For this purpose, the Nepalese mails will be handed over by the Nepalese Postal Administration to the office of
exchange in India corresponding to the Nepalese office of exchange which hands over such mails. The Indian Postal Administration
will then arrange for the conveyance of the above mails to the exchange office in India corresponding to the exchange office in Nepal
to which the mail is to be conveyed. The Nepal Postal Administration will arrange to take delivery of the mails from the latter Indian
office of exchange and arrange for its onward transmission to the Nepalese office of exchange to which the mail is to be conveyed.
For this purpose, the Nepalese exchange offices and the corresponding exchange offices in India are specified in Annexure II. 3. The Nepal Postal Administration undertakes to carry mails between the exchange offices in India and the exchange offices in Nepal
as specified in Annexure III. 4. The Indian Postal Administration shall render the service mentioned in para 2 supra free of cost and shall not recover any charges
from the Nepalese Administration for such conveyance of Nepalese mails between the offices agreed to. In consideration of the free
conveyance of such mails through the territory of India, it is agreed that the Indian Postal Administration will not be required
to make any payment to the Nepalese Postal Administration for the conveyance of Indian mails from the exchange offices in India to
the exchange offices in Nepal specified in Annexure III. 5. I shall be grateful if you could confirm that the above correctly sets out the understanding reached between us. Accept, Your Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Yours sincerely, Sd /-
M. DAYAL
Member (Posts) and Ex-Officio
Joint Secretary to the
Government of India,
Leader of the Indian Delegation.
His Excellency Shri YADU NATH KHANAL,
Royal Nepalese Ambassador in India,
New Delhi.
YADHU NATH KHANAL
Royal Nepalese Ambassador in India,
New Delhi. No. 34(3)-P.A.
Dated, 8th September , 1964
Dear Mr. DAYAL, I write to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 26/1/60-CF of today’s date, which reads as follows : (Text not reproduced) I confirm that your letter correctly sets out the understanding reached between us. Accept, Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Yours sincerely, Sd /-
YADU NATH KHANAL
Royal Nepalese Ambassador in India
Leader of the Nepalese Delegation.
Shri M. DAYAL
Member (Posts) and Ex-Officio
Joint Secretary to the Government of India,
New Delhi.
ANNEXURE I
LIST OF OFFICES OF EXCHANGE IN NEPAL BETWEEN WHICH THE NEPALESE MAIL IS TO BE ROUTED THROUGH THE INTERMEDIARY OF INDIA.
| Biratnagar | Pashupatinagar | | Birgunj | Biratnagar | | Birgunj | Bhairawa | | Bhariawa | Nepalganj(Banke) | | Bhairawa | Kailali | | Bhairawa | Baitadi | | Kailali | Baitadi | | Biratnagar | Jalewar | | Jaleswar | Birgunj |
ANNEXURE II
LIST OF THE INDIAN AND THE CORRESPONDING NEPALESE EXCHANGE OFFICES
| Name of exchange office in India | Name of exchange office in Nepal | | jogbani | Biratnagar | | Sukhiapokhari | Pasupatinagar | | Raxaul | Birganj | | Nautanwa Bazar | Bhairawa | | Rupaidiha | Nepalganj
(Banke) | | Gauriphanta (formerly
Palia) | Kailali | | Jhulaghat | Baitadi | | Sursand | Jaleswar |
ANNEXURE III
| Name of exchange office in India | Name of exchange office in Nepal | | Raxaul | Birgunj | | Bairgania | Gaur | | Sonbarsa | Sarlahi | | Sursand | Jaleswar | | Jaynagar | Janakpur | | Jaynagar | Siraha | | Laukaha
(BAZAR) | Bhagwanpur | | Jogbani | Biratnagar | | Jhulaghat | Baitadi | | Rupaidiha | Banke | | Gauriphanta (formerly
Palia) | Kailali | | Shoratgarh | Taulihawa | | Nautanwa Bazar | Bhairawa | | Jarwa | Koilabas | | Sukhiapokhari | Pasupatinagar | | Galgalia | Bhadrapur |
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