Hi Folks, My way of adding return postage has been to add stamps of the country you are writing to. These can be obtained from a stamp shop or from someone who purchases stamps from that country. I had an account with the British Philatelic Bureau tll a few years ago. I made it known amongst local genealogists that I was holding a few stamps of the correct amount for an email letter which they could buy from me at cost. Worked well. If any are wanted now I could obtain from friends there. Regards, Shirley Thomson New Plymouth New Zealand Researching: SIMPSON, WRIGHT, CLARKE (Bedale, Yks), RAW, BEAN (Bradford & Swaledale, Yks), FLOWER, HARRISON, LAMBERT, SCORER (Co Durham), ASHDOWN, ARNSBY, CAMP (London & Middlesex), TREWEEK, CHAPMAN, PRYNN, LOBB (Cornwall), FERGUSS0N, CLARK, BLACKLEY, RODDAN (Dumfriesshire), THOMSON, SCOTT (Angus) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Hall" <[email protected]> To: "'Carol Bradford'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 5:04 AM Subject: [DUR-NBL] International stamp coupons > Last year I bought two DNA kits from Ancestry, they each came with two > international reply coupons to return the kits. (two dollars per coupon) > > My local post office refused to accept the coupons and asked me to return > later in the day by which time they would have been able to make some > checks > on them. When I returned I was told they couldn't accept them and I had to > pay for the stamps. > > This was my experience of international stamp coupons and I can quite well > imagine someone trying to reply to you having the same problem and saying > "it's alright I'll not bother". > > I later tried to exchange the coupons for stamps at the main post office > only to be told I could only use them to post an item the USA - I still > have > them. > > Margaret Hall > Wallsend. > > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DUR-NBL] Writing to possible relatives > > I noted that the original poster is in the US. I've had excellent luck > with letters, but the names were unusual. Some people do back off, > especially if elderly, from understandable fear of giving out too much > information or worse. > IRC coupons are sold at the post office in the US, but they are only > good for certain countries and the last time I checked, the UK was not > one of them. There are also international business reply envelopes > available, but I don't know about them and couldn't find out more on > the USPS website. > Best regards, > Carol B in NY > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Mar 27, 2009, at 11:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > The other answers mentioned SAEs (stamped addressed envelopes) but >> you can't >> do that from overseas. You need to send two international reply >> coupons with >> each envelope. You can buy these at the post office but it makes it >> quite >> expensive and so much more difficult to do a large scale enquiry >> this way. >> >> Best wishes, Irene >> > > ==== DUR-NBL Mailing List ==== > To Post a message to this list send it to, > [email protected] > > ==== DUR-NBL Mailing List ==== > List Web Page > http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/durhamgenealogy/index.phtml > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.31/2027 - Release Date: 03/27/09 18:51:00