Who do I pay?

[babthrower]

I want to send stamped, self-addressed envelopes to some Brits. I don't want to send an international postal reply coupon because that is not convenient for them. I have the address of a U.K. post office, but I don't know who to make the money order/postal note out to. In Canada it would be the Receiver General. In the U.S. it should be payable to the postmaster. What about the U.K.?

[Ewood27]

Seems to me your best bet would be for someone to send you the UK stamps, Bab. If you want to e-mail me, I'm in the UK and I'm sure we can work something out. You can get my e-address through Answer Pool.

[babthrower]

Hi, Ewood, fancy meeting you here! Very kind and generous offer, but it would be easier for you to just phone a post office and ask them to whom the money order (or whatever term you Brits use for a draft that is instantly cashable, not a personal cheque) should be made payable, and then just post it here. I like Answerbank, don't you? I also like Answerpool. It's made wonderful progress since its very recent inception.

[Ewood27]

The Post Office only do International Reply Coupons - unless I have misunderstood what exactly you are looking for. You can look at http://www.consignia-online.com/index.jhtml?home=t
rue&bhx=po and see if you can make any sense of what they say, or go to http://www.answerpool.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=66960598
1&f=573602022&m=572604542 for my e-address. We'll get there somehow!

[babthrower]

Can't get ;your email because I can't get into that forum. Mine's [email protected]. Actually I simply want to purchase some stamps. Have done it before in the U.S. from Canada. They sell them to me quite happily. There doesn't seem to be any problem about 'don't sell our native stamps to these insidious foreigners; what'll they want next?" and I'm sure there's no problem in the U.K. either, it's just a question of finding out who to put as payee on the dratted bank draft.

[Ewood27]

Just in case anyone else is hanging on the answer to this question, we have established that the British postal authorities will not send stamps out. It is possible of course that an individual postmaster will oblige. No doubt they will willingly supply philatelic sets of new issues - that way you pay for a service they will not have to provide - but if you just want a few stamps which will be used, you need someone in the UK to send them to you! The end.

[mikewith]

Thanks for bringing us up to date!