Hope this helps a tad.
From a discussion 2005.
I had a six month long argument with the UN post office about that
some twenty years ago - I affixed vended US insured mail booklet
labals on mail I addressed to myself and dropped in the UN HQ mail box
- they fished them out and returned them to me with a letter saying
that they weren't valid on UN mail. I shot back that UN mail is US
mail, processed by the USPS and paid for by the UN when it reimburses
the US for the value of UNstamps on mail the UN gives to the US post
office for entry into the mailstream. Then they came back with a new
reason and said that insured mail must have merchandise inside, and my
mailing were only letters. I had put the booklet covers inside, one
in each envelope. I wrote back that the booklet covers were what was
insured - they had philatelic value. They gave in, processed the
covers, which arrived without a problem, and sent me a nice letter
saying "even though you are technically correct, we would prefer that
the vended insurance adhesives not be used on mail sent from the
headquarters".
LN
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:53:34 GMT, "Richard Mateles"
<rmateles@candida.com> wrote:
>Thanks to the various people that answered this query.
>
>I did some research on the Internet, and found the DMM site. Section 4.0
>deals with insured mail, and my reading is that philatelic matter is
>insurable. This corresponds to my prior experience and that of the APS.
>
>I went to a different post office and had no trouble sending the letter
>insured.
>
>I will return to the Loop Post Office in a day or two and try to convince
>them of the error of their interpretation. You can't insure documents or
>"papers" but merchandise is insurable. I'm not confident I'll succeed, but
>I may be surprised!
>
>Rich Mateles
A mutilated piece from my collection.
Posted 08/23/2011 08:14 am
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