--- 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.