b) Any indecent or obscene printing, painting, photograph, lithograph, engraving, film, book
card, or any other indecent or obscene article;
c) Any article which may not, under the law of the country to which it is addressed, be imported
or transmitted by post;
d) Any article containing or bearing any functions stamp or any counterfeit impression of a
franking machine;
e) Any article sent by post in a stamped or embossed envelope wrapper, card forms or paper in
imitation of the one issued under the authority of the public postal operator;
f) Any article bearing any stamp or impression of a stamping machine denoting payment of
postage or fee which is imperfect or mutilated or defaced in any way or across which is
written or printed or otherwise impressed;
g) Any article whereon the payment of any postage or fees purports to be denoted by any stamp
or impression which has been previously used to denote payment of the postage or fees on
any other postal article or any other stamp duty or tax;
h) Betting advertisements if relating to illegal business;
i) Fortune telling advertisements;
j) Sweepstake or lottery tickets, or advertisement or other notice in relation to sweepstake or
lottery other than a lawful sweepstake or lottery;
k) Any article which infringes trade mark or copy right laws;
l) Any living creature, other than bees, leeches and silk worms, parasites or destroyers for
noxious insects; and
m) Any article which by these Regulations is prohibited from being posted or accepted for
transmission by post;
No postal article shall be conveyed or delivered within Rwanda where the postal article is posted
outside the Rwanda, by a person resident in, or a firm carrying on business in Rwanda with intent
to avoid payment of highest domestic postage rate.
Article 37: Quality of Service standards
In conformity with international postal regulations, Authority hereby establish the minimum
postal service standards for the universal services rendered by the Public Postal Operator as
provided in Annex 3 of this Regulation.
The service standards to be performed by Public Postal Operator shall be reviewed from time to
time by the Authority where deemed necessary.
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