[Dx-qsl] Mail to ZD7

Tue Mar 1 07:58:49 EST 2005

The US Postal Systems returned a letter that I had sent to Nauru stating "No
such Country". I printed out the first page of the official Nauru Website &
taped it to my letter and even then had a hard time getting the clerk to
reintroduce the letter into the postal system.
Hutch, NK0S
(hp1xhh, ys9hh, hl9hp)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Dougherty" <w2irt at nac.net>
To: "Bruce Small" <bsmall at adelphia.net>; <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Mail to ZD7
> At 20:57 28-02-05, Bruce Small wrote:
>> >USPS has bounced a couple of QSL requests to Saint Helena back to me, one
> >stamped "Return for better address. Please show city and state of
> >destination and zip code" and the other stamped "Insufficient address."
To
> >the best of my knowledge, St. Helena doesn't use zip codes.
>> STHL-1ZZ is the post code
>> That said, I've sent many out addressed just as shown and they get there
> and back again. I've never had one bounce. I think it's a case of a postal
> in-DUH-vidual who never studied either history or geography and it "didn't
> compute" in his brainpan that there is such a place that's not a
well-known
> "country."
>>> >The addresses, taken from QRZ.com, are of the form:
> >
> >[Operator name]
> >P.O. Box [number]
> >Jamestown
> >Saint Helena
> >South Atlantic Ocean
>> This is quite valid and has worked for me on many an occasion.
>>> - pjd
>> W2IRT
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