Subject: postal far offering is a sign i ref for a flat sop
Date: Apr 17, 2005 @ 03:36
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
>
> 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.