Democratic Republic of the Congo -- These can't be legal, can they?

I wrote to UPU as Victor suggested, but it's now been several days and
I have not received a response.

Bob

Blair, excuse my ignorance, but what does WNS stand for?

Tony

"Blair (TC)" wrote in message
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Victor :

Although I basically agree with you,
the UPU will probably just diplomatically
say that The Democratic Republic of
Congo does not participate in WNS.

A number of other UPU countries
also do not participate in WNS.
(eg Yemen, Libya, N Korea, Algeria,
Mongolia, Vatican (Holy See), etc...)

Blair




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"A.E. Gelat" skrev i en meddelelse
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Blair, excuse my ignorance, but what does WNS stand for?

Tony

Tony, WNS stands for World Numbering System, jointly conceived by The World
Association for the Development of Philately (WADP) and the Universal Postal
Union (UPU), and launched on 1 January 2002, in the fight against illegal
stamps. http://www.wnsstamps.ch/en/

All participating countries submit their stamp issues to WNS and have them
registered, so that collectors may check out the registrations in order to
avoid purchasing the illegals.

Regards
Mette




"Blair (TC)" wrote in message
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Victor :

Although I basically agree with you,
the UPU will probably just diplomatically
say that The Democratic Republic of
Congo does not participate in WNS.

A number of other UPU countries
also do not participate in WNS.
(eg Yemen, Libya, N Korea, Algeria,
Mongolia, Vatican (Holy See), etc...)

Blair




Blair

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Thanks, Mette

Tony

"amesh" wrote in message
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"A.E. Gelat" skrev i en meddelelse
...
Blair, excuse my ignorance, but what does WNS stand for?

Tony

Tony, WNS stands for World Numbering System, jointly conceived by The
World Association for the Development of Philately (WADP) and the
Universal Postal Union (UPU), and launched on 1 January 2002, in the fight
against illegal stamps. http://www.wnsstamps.ch/en/

All participating countries submit their stamp issues to WNS and have them
registered, so that collectors may check out the registrations in order to
avoid purchasing the illegals.

Regards
Mette




"Blair (TC)" wrote in message
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Victor :

Although I basically agree with you,
the UPU will probably just diplomatically
say that The Democratic Republic of
Congo does not participate in WNS.

A number of other UPU countries
also do not participate in WNS.
(eg Yemen, Libya, N Korea, Algeria,
Mongolia, Vatican (Holy See), etc...)

Blair




Blair

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"Eric Kenneth Bustad" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Victor Manta wrote:
}"Eric Kenneth Bustad" wrote in message
...
} In article ,
} Victor Manta wrote:
} 1890
}In July, the Brussels International Conference condemned slavery and
}triggered the start of the anti-slavery campaign in Africa, at the
}instigation of the King.
}
}History would be a great science if it were true.
}
} This was treated in the book that Bob mentioned, which described it as
} basically a successful attempt by the King to cover up his treatment of
} the natives.
}
}OK, we got a circular reference to the same book (Bob has already
informed
}us about its author's opinions). Now let's look a bit further.
}
}About the importance of the Brussels Act:
}
}"In later years the slave trade was conducted on the east coast of
Africa,
}the market being in Muslim lands. Most antislavery efforts during the
19th
}cent. were directed against slave trading. Great Britain had passed
}antislave-trade laws in 1807 and 1811; the British attempted to enlist
other
}nations in an effort to stop the slave trade, and several treaties for
such
}a purpose were signed in the 1840s. However, the first important
}international agreement was not reached until the Berlin Conference in
1885,
}which bound the more important Muslim potentates to act against the slave
}traffic. This was supplemented by the even more significant Brussels Act
of
}1890, to which 18 states were signatory."
}
}http://www.answers.com/topic/slavery
}
}About Brussels Act consequences:
}
}"Whereas the signatories of the General Act of the Brussels Conference of
}1889-90 declared that
}they were equally animated by the firm intention of putting an end to the
}traffic in African slaves; "
}
}Excerpt from the Slavery Convention (25 September 1926) and Protocol (7
}December 1953)
}http://www.historycentral.com/Histor...laveryI-V.html
}
}Isn't it strange that a king that looks like an exploiter, racist and
}criminal in that book, organized in Belgium an _international_ conference
}against slavery, a conference that was then permanently cited in
subsequent
}great anti-slavery decisions???

The conference concentrated upon the slavery perpetrated by those awful
Arabs in East Africa. Conveniently ignoring what the King's men were
doing in the Congo.

Your sources, please?

--
Victor Manta

"Blair (TC)" wrote in message
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Victor :

Although I basically agree with you,
the UPU will probably just diplomatically
say that The Democratic Republic of
Congo does not participate in WNS.

"Bobstamp" wrote in message
oups.com...
I wrote to UPU as Victor suggested, but it's now been several days and
I have not received a response.

Bob

I'm sorry for that. Is this reaction even a more diplomatic one? :-)

Let's wait just a bit more, and if nothing happens, I'll try something
different. Bob, please keep us informed.

--
Victor Manta

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There is a working postal system in the DRC.
As far as I can see, they use PO Boxes only (ie no delivery)

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF (Country code: CD)

[Canada Post accepts the following for DRC]

LETTER MAIL - Surface and AIR
PARCELS - to 30 Kg
PUROLATOR parcels to 30 Kg
SMALL PACKETS (AIR OR SURFACE) to 2 KG
REGISTERED MAIL (Letter-post Airmail only)

Blair