In a message dated 4/6/2007 6:25:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, prodan@alltel.net writes: > > Send them an american express money order during a holiday or > birthday, and/or a present from the US and I'll bet they'll start > writing... > Funny how "material things" tends to open people up.. > > You may be wrong. A problem we frequently found is, due to lack of > acknowledgement, we never knew whether the gift actually arrived. And with personal > checks, too proud to cash them, they did not return them or tell us what > happened, so we still had to carry them as expense. > It was a riddle, probably some kind of pride while they were considered > "poor" and we were of course "rich Americans".