[Dx-qsl] US Postal System - Beware of the NIXIE

Wed May 9 19:43:55 EDT 2012

This is really no different than Alaska, and shows how insular Americans can 
be.
If you were an overseas ham, would you ever think to address an envelope as
"Anchorage, Alaska, North America"? Or "via Russia"?
No - because you know that Alaska is just a US state. You would just add 
"USA" to the address.
I'm sure our French ham friends laugh at us- how could we not know that 
Guadeloupe or Reunion are just French states. (which, if you looked at the 
postal codes, you would see right away... F-xxx). The last word in the 
address is "FRANCE". Not "via France". Just "France".
If anyone should understand this sort of geography, it's us hams!!
Sorry, back to the 7O pileup....
Len K1NU
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Wylie" <tgwylie at virginmedia.com>
Cc: <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] US Postal System - Beware of the NIXIE
>I think thats more of a French thing - I have had several envelopes
> returned from French Overseas Territories etc stating in-correct
> address. I remember going through CDG airport in Paris and trying to
> buy Duty Free Perfume for my wife whilst en-route to Guadeloupe and was
> told that I was not entitled to Duty Free to Guadeloupe as its classes
> as part of France and thus an internal flight!!!!
>> Tom
> GM4FDM
>> On 09/05/2012 05:10, Tom Anderson wrote:
>> Ron:
>>>> For years I've had to put the area of the world on the last line of DX 
>> envelopes since apparently the USPS or NIXIE doesn't know where countries 
>> are in the world. I've gotten back many air mail envelopes where the 
>> USPS couldn't forward them because it didn't know where many countries 
>> were, despite the fact they are mentioned in the USPS International Mail 
>> Manual with all kinds of rates, etc.
>>>> That doesn't include the ones like Reunion Island I have to address as 
>> Reunion, FRANCE with the French postal code, rather than Reunion Island, 
>> which at one time went through Senegal and usually ended up pilfered.
>>>> Tom Anderson, WW5L
>>>>>>>> --- On Tue, 5/8/12, Ron Notarius W3WN<wn3vaw at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>> From: Ron Notarius W3WN<wn3vaw at verizon.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] US Postal System - Beware of the NIXIE
>>> To: alitalian39 at juno.com, dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
>>> Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 3:49 PM
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