Subject: Re: Euro in North America<br/>
Date: Jan 06, 2002 @ 13:30<br/>
Author: ps1966nl (&quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-90187733">Doug Palmer wrote:<br/>
(...) The French southern Indian Ocean islands are<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; uninhabited. (...)<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>No, there are people living there. E.g. on Kerguelen, in <br/>
the &quot;capital&quot; Port-aux-Français. From the Book &quot;Kerguelen&quot; by J.-P. <br/>
Kauffmann:<br/>
<br/>
&quot;(...) Together we walk to the &quot;Postal Service&quot;. (...) Why would <br/>
there be a post office in an area where the post is delivered on only <br/>
a few days per year? Because there you can buy the special TAAF <br/>
stamps. These stamps are enormously popular with philatelists, who <br/>
know all islands of Kerguelen and dream of becoming the owner of <br/>
a &quot;Résidence de France&quot;, a very rare post cover from the time of the <br/>
Bossière brothers. Everyone that stays here during winter has the <br/>
right to send a telegram of seventy words each week to someone.<br/>
The postal service is the only place in the archipelago where you <br/>
reach for your wallet. At the co-operation you can buy everything <br/>
(alcohol, sigarettes, clothing, shoes) without having to pay with <br/>
cash or even write a cheque. The things you buy are subtracted from <br/>
your salary at the end of your stay. (...)&quot;<br/>
<br/>
Has someone already seen TAAF stamps with euro denominations?<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>