On Nov 17, 12:32*am, john wrote:
On Nov 16, 9:54*pm, Cato wrote:





Someone was asking for the mailing address of Radio St. Helena. If it
has already been posted, then my apologies for sending this. It's from
Glenn Hauser's site. My thanks to Glenn Hauser.

* ** SAINT HELENA. RADIO ST. HELENA : *NEW ALTERNATE POSTAL ROUTE FOR
ALL LETTERS TO RSH

Dear Friends of Radio St. Helena,

In an attempt to avoid the well-known and unfortunate problems with
the reception reports sent to Radio St. Helena for the Radio St.
Helena Day shortwave broadcasts in the past years since 1998, an
alternate postal route has been sought. With the considerable help
of
and excellent suggestions by the Postmistress, Mrs. Henry, and her
assistant, Mrs. Benjamin, of the Ascension Island Post Office, an
alternate postal address and path has been found.

Therefore, ALL LETTERS to Radio St. Helena *may be sent to the
following address.

* Radio St. Helena
* * *P.O.Box *93
* * *Jamestown
* * *St. Helena Island
* * *STHL *1ZZ
-----------------------------------
* * *--- *Via AIRMAIL *----
* *Via United Kingdom and Ascension
===================================

VERY IMPORTANT :
================
The "new" part of this address is the last few lines, and it is
"essential" that this address be written exactly this way.

IMPORTANT :
-------------------
Be certain to use enough postage on the letter, as if you were
sending
the letter to the remotest part of the world. This is even true for
listeners in the UK. With best greetings, (Robert Kipp, 11. November
2008, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

I.e. bypassing the ficky stingers in Cape Town. They should make mail
theft a federal crime like we do (Glenn Hauser, USA, DXLD)

This reminds me of dealing with the Italian postal authorities years
ago as a tourist. Tourists to Rome were strongly encouraged to take
their outbound mail over the Vatican and mail it from there, as the
Vatican postal system was deemed much more likely not to lose the
mail
than the Italian postal system (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA,
NASWA yg via DXLD)

With all due respect and thanks to the St. Helena postal authorities
and Robert Kipp, I remain skeptical that the change in the postal
address suggested will have much effect on St. Helena-bound mail from
the U.S. I have tried the "via" UK or "via" London and clearly the
USPS has not followed that direction and those letters too did not go
through. I can only conclude that the USPS has standard routing
procedures that are followed regardless if one requests another
routing, e.g., via England rather than via South Africa.

The St. Helena postal authorities have no control over the path the
USPS choses to direct its overseas mail. I have a request to my
senator to send an official inquiry to the USPS to find out (1) if,
as
we all surmise, all mail to St. Helena is routed through South
Africa,
(2) and if so, would they change the standard routing to via the UK,.
(3) and if not, is there some way, or special coding, we can use to
mark our envelopes so the routing will be changed from via Capetown
to
via London.

DX LISTENING DIGEST 8-117, November 11, 2008
* * * * Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
* * * * edited by Glenn Hauser,http://www.worldofradio.com

hi, thanks for posting this - i plan on qsl'ing RSH also. could you
please tell me if return postage for the qsl is needed? in the form of
IRC's? or will it suffice to just send in the qsl without additional
return postage.

thx, john- Hide quoted text -

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Greetings: I'm sorry John. I don't know the answer to that question.
Perhaps others know more.