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In a situation that DC calling for a postal receipt or courier receipt to evident bene. had despatching some documents to the stipulated party,
the postal receipt should be presented in original and courier receipt should be presented with notation copy for sender (usually, is the second page of airway bill issued by the courier service with data contents under carbon production).
Problem: since DC does not specify copy of postal receipt or courier receipt acceptable, in general practice, original document is required, so, it may be regarded as discrepancy if the postal receipt or courier receipt presented in photocopy. Besides, the courier receipt cannot be presented in original due to the origin already accompany with the documents despatched to the receiptent. This is just like the reason why copy for shipper under Airway bill should be acceptable on UCP500 under air transport documents.
Can anybody give comments on the above?

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[edited 11/8/02 12:50:08 AM]

Since it is known that a postal receipt or courier receipt is not a document of title, there is no added value in the difference between an original and a copy. Therefore the issuing bank should only ask for copies of such documents.

I agree with H Leung that a copy AWB should be acceptable, but it is plain for all to see in Article 27 A v that only the original is acceptable. Since this is known before the AWB is drawn up, it should not be problematic.