[Dx-qsl] ZD7BG returned

Fri May 30 18:21:00 2003

I vaguely recall someone saying to put South Atlantic Ocean
on the envelope so the scanning system doesn't pick up Helena and think it's
the US City...

I had something similar once, in an air mail envelope, with a foreign air
mail stamp.
But apparently the scanning software picked up the city name and as there
was no such address bounced it for return to sender...

I found it's good practice NOT to put any numbers on the last line of the
address lest they be detected as USA zip code numbers.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Small" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] ZD7BG returned

> Well, I had the US Postal Service bounce a request going to St. Helena
> because the address lacked a Zip Code!
> -Bruce, KM2L
>
> Richard L. King wrote:
>
> > I just got my envelope returned from a direct request to ZD7BG and it
> > was marked as "no such number".
> >
> > The address I used was
> >
> >         Gilbert Legg
> >         P. O. Box 157
> >         Jamestown
> >         St. Helena Island
> >
> > This address seems to be the correct one per many of the DX QSLing web
> > sites and Pathfinder. Has anyone else had this problem with ZD7BG?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > 73, Richard
> >
> > [email protected]
> >
> >
>
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