May the others forgive me... but...
Too bad you've chosen to stay ignorant on these scores.
At least among your message's inconsequential verbiage you admit my
posturing is exquisite. What are you good at, other than putting
people down when a thread doesn't please or interest you and you have
nothing substantive to contribute to it?
LN
--- 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.