(2) Routing via two trips of initial air carrier, plus trip of another air carrier. Enter the destination, the first intraline transfer point, and the interline transfer point, plus the route and trip numbers of the second air carrier.

(3) Routing involving two interline transfers after air carrier of initial dispatch. Enter the destination and the interline transfer point, plus the route and trip number of the second air carrier.

(b) In section 2-(1) Routing. Enter the route and flight number of the air carrier to which the mail is to be transferred.

(2) Tr. Pt. Enter the code of the airport at which the interline connection is to be made.

(3) Carrier dest. Enter off-loading point, either for delivery to post office or for transfer to another carrier.

(4) I. Enter X to identify mail moving over an authorized interchange trip. (5) Pieces and weight. Enter the mail by totals (obtained from section 1 of Form 2729) for each of the destinations involved.

(6) Interline total. Total pieces and weight columns.

(4) Completing the form. (i) Total the pieces and weights for each destination column.

(ii) Total the subtotals of all columns, and enter in the total mail space.

(iii) Recap all columns under the actual destinations served by the trip of dispatch. Enter each airport served, with the appropriate total, in section 3.

(iv) Total the originating load column, and verify against the previously entered total mail. If more than one form has been used, the originating load and total mail entries must appear on the final form.

(v) At nonairport mail facility points, the post office employees preparing Form 2729 will not total the dest., originating load, and total mail columns if the mail messenger or motor vehicle service driver picks up additional mail at the railroad station or other postal unit en route to the airport. On arrival at the airport, the mail must be weighed and proper entry must be made on Form 2729 by the messenger.

(vi) In the mail ready space, enter the time at which the mail and forms are ready for delivery to the air carrier at the airport. At nonairport mail facility points, this time must be entered by the

mail messenger or vehicle service driver. The messenger or driver must obtain the signature of the receiving air carrier representative at the time the mail is delivered.

(vii) If the volume of mail is too large to be listed on one Form 2729, use a new numbered form, line through but do not obliterate the printed number, and write in the serial number of the first form. Number the sets consecutively, identifying the last by adding X after the number.

(viii) Add the weights of total mail to interline total and enter document pound total in space provided. This total must be correct as it is used as a control total for processing punchcards for pay purposes.

(ix) Sign Form 2729 in space provided for POD representative's signature.

(5) Corrections to form 2729. Any corrections to Form 2729 shall be made prior to separating and distributing the four parts of the form. Neither postal nor air carrier personnel shall make corrections on any part of Form 2729 after the form has been separated and distributed.

(c) Distribution of copies. After obtaining the air carrier representative's signature on Form 2729, separate copies and distribute as follows:

(1) Post Office accounting copy 1: Arrange forms in ascending serial number order (smallest number on top) and send to designated postal data center daily. Include the second and third copies of all forms that have been voided, mutilated, etc. Since all of these forms are serially numbered, they must be accounted for.

NOTE-At nonairport mail facility points, the first three copies of Form 2729 must accompany the mail: After obtaining the carrier's signature, the mail messenger or vehicle service driver must return copy 1 to the post office.

(2) Carrier billing copy 2 and carrier station copy 3: To local air carrier representative.

(3) Post Office station copy 4: To dispatching postal unit file.

(d) Departure time. Postal units shall spot check actual departure time against mail ready time on Form 2729 to assure that unreported delays are not occurring.

(e) Interchange trips. (1) Mail moving over more than one airmail route on one aircraft must be properly identified in section 2 of Form 2729. No ter

minal charge is due at the interchange point, as mail remains on board the aircraft. To enable post office accounting personnel to properly identify this mail, dispatching postal clerks must insert an X in the I column of section 2, Form 2729, for the air carrier who is not due to receive a terminal charge.

(2) Interchange trips will be identified on the States dispatch schemes with an "INT" shown between the transfer point and the interchange route number.

(f) Equalizations authorized. (1) Delta Airlines, Inc., has been authorized to equalize its rate to the existing multielement rate for transporting domestic airmail between New Orleans, La., and San Juan, P.R. No additional documentation on Form 2729 is required to identify this mail.

(2) CAB Order No. E-21514, 11-19-64, authorizes carriers engaging in interstate transportation and carriers performing foreign transportation to equalize rates for mail between an international exchange office and any foreign point to which such exchange office is authorized to dispatch mail. Mail transported under an equalization agreement shall be recorded on Form 2942, AV-7 Delivery List, for both the interstate and foreign segments of the carriage. It will not be considered in the division of mail for interstate carriers. Settlement of air transportation charges will be made to the carrier performing the foreign segment of the haul. That carrier will pay the interstate carrier. When irregularities occur involving dispatches exchanged with other countries, give special attention to the preparation of Form 2759. Since the mail from a domestic carrier's trip may consist of (i) domestic destination airmail, (ii) airmail for foreign points not subject to equalization agreements or (iii) airmail moving via equalized agreements, show separate entries on Form 2759 for domestic mail and foreign mail. Show complete routing of all foreign mail. This will enable the transportation division, by making a copy of Form 2759, to make a report of domestic mail to Air Transportation Branch and of foreign mail to International Services Division, Bureau of Transportation and International Services.

(3) American Airlines, Inc., and Pan American World Airways, Inc., have agreed to equalize rates to lowest charges in effect for airmail transported between Honolulu, on the one hand, and Boston,

Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Hartford, Springfield, Mass., New York and Newark, on the other. Apply the following procedures for airmail.

(i) Enter complete interline routing on the pouch label or POD Label 53.

(ii) Record pouches or outsides on Form 2729 as an on-line dispatch. Show no interline routing in Section No. 2, Form 2729.

(iii) Report irregularities on Form 2759 against the air carrier in possession of the mail when irregularity occurred.

(iv) The appropriate postal data center will pay entire transportation charges, from origin to ultimate destination, to the originating carrier. The originating carrier will pay connecting carrier for the interline service.

(g) Labeling pouches, sacks, and outsides. Pouches, sacks, and outside parcels listed on Form 2729 must be identified so that airline and postal personnel handling the mail en route can provide the transportation ordered by the dispatching office. Before delivering the mail to the air carrier, prepare the labels of pouches and sacks to indicate final airline destination and the route over which it is to travel. Attach Label 53, Airmail Parcel Routing Sticker, for each air parcel dispatched outside. The information on pouch and sack labels and Label 53 for outside parcels must coincide with the corresponding entries on Form 2729 as follows:

(1) For mail billed to the final destination over the routes of two or more air carriers, enter on pouch or sack label in airline code the interline transfer points and the route and trip numbers of the connecting air carrier at these points. Show this information in the left center of the label between the destination and from lines. Enter the same information in the Transfer point and Connection blocks on Label 53 for outside parcels. Example: Mail from Toledo to AMF Houston Tex via AM 88 for transfer to AM 1 at Detroit and AM 5 at Atlanta will be labeled as follows:

(3) For mail billed to an air stop point other than the actual destination of the pouch and sack labels or on Label 53 for outside parcels, enter in code the point to which billed on Form 2729, in parentheses, on the same line after the address on the pouch and sack label. Enter in the Billed to block on Label 53 the code for the point to which billed on Form 2729. Use the same procedure as that for pouch and sack labels for entry of transfer point and route number, if required. Example: Mail from Cincinnati, O. to Jamestown, N.D. via AM 8-422 transfer at ORD to 3-411, billed to AMF Minneapolis.

5-302 Via Ban & Bos SR Tr 55

(5) Weigh each pouch, sack, and outside parcel. Record the weight on the pouch and sack label (see example in (1) above), on the Label 53 for outside parcels, and on the Form 2729 in even pounds. When weighing, ignore fractions of a pound of 8 ounces or less. Add 1 pound for fractions over 8 ounces. Example:

8 oz..

2 [30 F.R. 10135, Aug. 14, 1965, as amended at 30 F.R. 11173, Aug. 31, 1965]

§ 96.20 Form 2734, Airmail Exception Record.

(a) Description. Form 2734 provides a source of information as to the actual movement of airmail that does not move via the original schemed routing. It also provides a means of making accounting adjustments since it serves (1) as the basis for deduction of payment for scheduled services not performed and (2) as the basis for payment for new services ordered. Form 2734 is a five-part form with carbon paper interleaved. See § 96.27 for supply.

(b) Preparation (1) Who prepares. The delivering air carrier must prepare Form 2734 to cover the irrregularities outlined in paragraph (d) of this section. The form will be prepared in a few instances at airport mail facilities, or post offices, when the air carrier fails in his responsibility.

(2) Completion of form. Form 2734 must clearly describe transportation originally designated by the dispatching postal unit but which was not performed. The Form 2734 is always prepared at the city where the first deviation in the rout

ing of the mail is known. General instructions for completion of the form are printed on the reverse side of the fifth copy of the form. In addition, the following instructions must be followed:

(i) Route numbers, city code, and form serial number. The first line directly under the printed name of the airline indicates three things:

(a) Numerical airmail route number assigned to the air carrier by the U.S. Government. This number will be preprinted on the form.

(b) The three-letter alphabetical city code of the city at which the irregularity occurs and where the form is prepared. This city code designator must be inserted by the airline preparing the form.

(c) The serial number of the form. This number will be preprinted on the form and is provided to permit checking of differences between postal service and air carrier records. The maximum number of digits is five.

(ii) Route trip, and date. On the second line are blocks for the airmail route number and trip number of the air carrier from whose flight the mail covered by the form was received. If mail was not boarded, this is the route and trip to which the mail was billed for dispatch. The date on which the flight, from which mail was received, was scheduled to originate will be indicated in the scheduled origin date block.

(iii) Routing shown on pouch label(a) Transfer point and route number. There may be two or more transfer points and two or more route numbers shown on a pouch label or an outside piece label. Form 2734 is provided for the purpose of showing only that portion of the original scheduled routing which was not completed. If a transfer point shown on the pouch label is overflown, the overflown transfer point and the remaining transfer points, if any, must be shown.

(b) Destination. Enter alphabetical code of actual destination. If the destination is followed by a bracketed "billed" destination, then this should be entered instead. Pouch labels with the same destination and incompleted routing may be grouped in one entry.

(iv) Amount of mail. The amount of mail, pieces, and weight for a common destination may be combined when they have the same incompleted routing as shown on the labels.

(v) New routing. The air carrier destination is the city (alphabetical

code) to which the air carrier shown in this section is to carry the mail. Likewise, the Route and Trip Number to be inserted in this section are the airmail numerical route number of the air carrier which is to transport the mail and that air carrier's trip number.

(vi) Reason for preparation. Specific boxes have been provided for nine of the most common reasons for preparing Form 2734. Whenever the form is prepared because of one of these nine basic reasons, the box opposite the reason for preparation must be checked. Explain other reasons not listed.

(vii) Signature. The signature of the representative of the air carrier or of the postal service who receives the mail, followed by the air carrier or Post Office Department station code; and the time (24-hour clock time) the mail is received by the air carrier or the postal service must be entered on the form.

(c) Distribution of form 2734. Normal distribution of the five copies is printed on each copy of the form. Copies 3 and 4, in all cases, must be given to the postal unit for transmitting, with daily shipment of Forms 2729, to the designated postal data center. The only deviations from this normal distribution

are:

(1) When the receiving and delivering air carrier are the same. Staple the receiving and delivering air carriers' billing copies together.

(2) When mail is delivered to the postal service by Form 2734. Retain the second copy, and turn in all other copies to the postal unit.

(d) Irregularities requiring preparation of Form 2734. See § 96.25(c). (1) The following irregularities must be reported on Form 2734 when mail involved is delivered to the postal service at other than destination, or delivered to an air carrier not specified in the original billing:

(i) Part of mail not boarded.
(ii) Carry by and/or overfly.

(iii) Removed short of air carrier destination in error.

(iv) Missed a scheduled interline connection.

(v) Missed a scheduled intraline connection.

(vi) Mail boarded in error.

(vii) Incomplete or Incorrect Labels. (2) Additional irregularities requiring Form 2734 preparation are: (i) Cancellation of flight