[Dx-qsl] Route for FK8CP?

[Charles Bibb]

Peter,

I think "(OCEANIA)" at the end of the address might have been the 
problem.  I also mailed a card to Remi on 26-MAR-09, and mine has not 
"bounced" - yet!

Postal employees may be good at memorizing which envelopes go in 
which slots, but that doesn't mean they know the first thing about 
world geography.

If I take a letter to my local P.O. without the airmail stamp already 
on it, the clerk throws it on the scale and punches a key that tells 
her machine that it is going overseas. The machine then prompts her 
for a "country code" for the letter's destination, which she MUST 
enter into her keyboard or the transaction cannot be finished. I'm 
guessing that you already had your envelope stamped when you took it 
to the P.O. and somewhere along the line someone decided that 
"OCEANIA" was not a country because they couldn't find a code for it.

I've gotten cards from Remi in the past, and I don't remember adding 
"OCEANIA".  I think I did one time add "FRANCE" to the end of the 
address. In the French postal system, the location is determined by 
the postal code (like our zip code), and as I understand it, any mail 
going to any French territory goes first to France upon entering the 
system, regardless of it's final destination.

I know when sending cards to Reunion Island, a French Territory in 
the Indian Ocean, you should never actually put the word "Island" on 
the address, you simply put "Reunion" and "France" and make sure you 
have the correct postal (zip) code.

73,
Charles - K5ZK


At 02:00 PM 4/6/2009, Peter Dougherty wrote:
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>Hi all,
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>I'm just wondering if anybody has a current address for Remi, FK8CP? I sent
>a card for an 80m QSO last week and it bounced back this morning. The
>address I used was exactly what's show on QRZ.com
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>Remi Touzard
>B.P. 945
>98845 Noumea Cedex,
>NEW CALEDONIA (OCEANIA)
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>The return-to-sender marking was a poorly-applied rubber-stamp but it was in
>English, so I'm guessing it never made it out of the US Postal Service's
>care.
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>Any ideas?
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>Regards,
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>Peter,
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>W2IRT
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