i see
smom deified moms
also

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/followup/beijing+5stat/statements/ma
lt9.htm

or maybe
moms deified smom
as well

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A. Nadybal"
<lnadybal@c...> wrote:

>
> Linn's Stamp News (Sydney, Ohio) reports in its Nov 29 edition that
> the SMOM has signed a 10-year postal agreement with Italy that

takes

> effect on January 1, 2005.
>
> Under the agreement, SMOM stamps can be used on mail addressed to
> Italy. More importantly, SMOM stamps will be acceptable on mail
> addressed to any of the other 50 countries with which the Order has
> postal agreements. No longer will the SMOM have to put the mail

for

> those countries under cover into other envelopes and mail the

outbound

> SMOM items through the Italian post office to the other states

using

> Italian stamps - the Italians will "sponsor" SMOM mail, and

forward it

> open, along with Italian mail to the others.
>
> Italy will accept only unaccountable mail for forwarding - no
> registered, insured, VPP or other mail requiring signatures.
>
> The SMOM has issued its own stamps since 1966, but the arrangement

> sought with Italy was first conceived in 1960, so this agreement

has

> been a long time in coming.
>
> Of greatest consequence, is the requirement for the SMOM to issue
> stamps in Euros - the Grani/Scudi denominated stamps can continue

> be issued, but not for use on mail given to Italy for forwarding.
> Italy is requiring that the SMOM's postal rates be equal to the
> Italnian rates, which is the same arrangement in existence for the
> Vatican. In essence, the Euro zone is getting one "country"

larger.

>
> The result here is that the status of SMOM stamps will be that of
> Bhutan's stamps between 1962 - 1966, when if finally joined the

UPU.

> Until it joined, it's mail was "sponsored" by India, which inserted
> Bhutan's mail into the international mailstream along with its own.
>
> Season's Greetings,
>
> Len Nadybal