Subject: postal far offering is a sign i ref for a flat sop Re: capitals etc
Date: Apr 17, 2005 @ 02:18
Author: L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...>
> wrote:
> > Thanks, for the update, Len. You're obviously more current on the
postal
> > affairs of the three Freely Associated States (Marshalls,
Micronesia, and Palau)
> > than am I. The last I knew, the US Postal Service was still
running their post
> > offices for them. Now, you say that they're running their own.
In any case,
> > their post offices are former USPS offices, so my basic premise
(that the CIA is
> > using the names of the post offices serving the governments as the
names of the
> > capitals) still holds. It holds absolutely in such places as the
Northern
> > Marianas and American Samoa, which are American possessions and
have USPS
> > offices.
>
> hahahahaha
> ahh
> such exquisite posturing over whatt
>
> but here
> have some more stamps with your cancellations
> hahaha
> & how about some perforations too
> or a watermark
> on the house
> hahahaha
>
> for it is not that your premise or his bailiwick holds
> but only that you are both so zipped & stuck on your own conceited
pretensions
> that we can hardly hope to soak you off your envelopes
>
>
> > The Freely Associated States might now run their own post offices,
but they
> > appear to be very freely associated with the USPS as well. The
USPS Domestic
> > Mail Manual (edition of January 6, 2005) says at section G011.2.2:
> >
> > "Mail originating in the United States of America, its territories
and
> > possessions, APOs, FPOs, and the United Nations, NY, for delivery
in the Freely
> > Associated States, and mail originating in the Freely Associated
States for
> > delivery within, among, and between the Freely Associated States
and the United
> > States of America, its territories and possessions, APOs, FPOs,
and the United
> > Nations, NY, is treated as if it were domestic mail."
> >
> > This means that you or I could send a letter there for 37¢ instead
of 80¢.
> >
> > In the same vein, the Universal Postal Union's on-line roster of
members at
> > http://www.upu.int/members/en/members.html lists at its very end
"UN member
> > countries whose situation with regard to the UPU has not yet been
settled."
> > There are four: Andorra, Marshalls, Micronesia, and Palau.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:51 PM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: capitals or administrative centers
for small places
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Oooh, you touched on post offices - now you're in my bailiwick.
> > > The CIA doesn't mention these because the post offices in the
> > > Marshalls, Palau, and the other countries/nation states that have
> > > compacts of free association with the USA are not US post offices.
> > > They are post offices of those countries - the USPS assigned a ZIP
> > > code to them, nothing more. Mail from Japan to Palau, for example,
> > > doesn't need the US ZIP Code - if it did, the mailer in Japan would
> > > have to pay postage to the USA. The postmaster general and staff of
> > > the Republic of Palau Postal Service are not Americans nor employees
> > > or agents of the U.S. Postal Service. These countries issue and use
> > > their own stamps. The US does provide some foreign aid to these
> > > former trust territories, and the aid does take the form of
shipments
> > > of US postal forms (like registered mail receipts, etc.), to save
> > > these relatively poor countries from having to spend money on
printing
> > > their own. When the trusteeships ended, and these countries began
> > > issuing their own stamps, there was a time when US stamps could be
> > > affixed side-by-side with the local issues to make up needed
postage -
> > > in fact the USPS stamp stock was on hand during these interim
> > > post-trusteeship - pre-independence periods, but as they were
> > > exhausted, the remittances to the USPS was phased out. These
> > > countries are indpendent now, and that dual-franking practice is no
> > > longer allowed.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > LN
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> > > <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > >> I think that the CIA's reasons for giving the capitals of the
> > > Marshall Islands,
> > >> the Northern Marianas, and American Samoa as they do is because
> > > those are the
> > >> names of the United States Post Offices serving as the addresses of
> > > the various
> > >> governments.