pbs v. 48. Issue 25 internal postage on seed from abroad
Adam Fikso (Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:21:30 PST)

This issue continues to be a mess under this administration and to my
knowledge it violates an international postal convention.

Historically, proper postage affixed to the outside of the package destined
for a quarantine station covered the journey to the final destination, i.e.,
from the quarantine station to the address of the assigned holder of the
numbered green-and-yellow permit quarantine sticker. Aything less than
this, it seems to me, constitutes a violation of the international postal
convention, which, as I understood it,, had the status of a treaty. Let us
all write our congressmen/congresspersons.

With the "improved " organization of federal departments, divisions and
bureaus, resulting in greater security, greater efficiency, and the rapid
rebuilding of New Orleans back to its original status (of about 1740?), the
erosion of what was a stable and working postal system has revealed what
some of us thought all along:

"Fixed" also means its opposite, as in pet animals. And what is the
opposite of the "Midas touch" ?