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<H1>French QSL mystery resolved </H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Earlier this year, a consignment of QSL parcels destined
for overseas Bureau's - including one for France - were dispatched by the South
African Radio League. Shortly after that South African Radio Amateurs started
receiving cards destined for France back in the mail. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The mystery has now been resolved and the Post office taken
to task.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>After dispatch, the Post Office went on strike and during
this strike period it appeared that one of the QSL parcels was "broken open" by
one or more strikers, possibly looking for valuables. Now the French Bureau took
the trouble to return the empty parcel to us which proved that the SARL QSL
Bureau's suspicion was correct.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>We sincerely apologize for the negligence displayed by the
Postal authorities. We are awaiting a response from the Post Office.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The QSL bureau has already made changes in the packaging
material which will make it more difficult for parcels to be opened without some
major effort. The QSL bureau has unfortunately no control over employees of the
Post Office breaking parcels to check for valuables - which appears to be a
common complaint!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Fonte: </FONT><A href="http://www.sarl.org.za/Default.asp"
target=_blank><FONT face=Tahoma>The South African Radio
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