Greetings.

This is kind of news of the week.

1. Germany's telekom and Austria telecom officials agreed last year
to "turn off" the German phone area code in the Kleinwalstertal.
There was an outcry from locals and others responsible for tourism.
The new agreed date is 1 June 2003, I believe. No mention was made
in the article I read about Jungholz.

2. The Austrian post office decided to leave the German post code in
place in the Kleinwalstertal and Jungholz and not upset the treatment
it gives to inbound German mail as domestic mail. With Austria and
Germany both using the Euro, there's no reason to have a special
tariff in place under which people bought Austrian schilling stamps
using German currency, or having the German domestic rate apply on
outbound mail, requiring a "special Schilling tariff". No there is a
"special Austrian-euro tarif eqaul to the German-euro postage rates
for mail form the KLWT and Jungholz, and for some postal services it
is higher than the normal Austrian international rate to Germany.
A deal is a deal.

3. San Marino is now issuing gold Euro commemorative coins AND
CONTINUES to issue commemorative coins in Scudi - that old currency of
the Military Order of Malta. I was surprised to read that, for I
thought Scudi had dies everywhere except the SMOM.

Regards

Len