@ S57RW [#9]

* Scheinbar hat S57RW die Quelle der Versandadressen etwas erhellen können.
* ich bitte um Verständnis, wenn ich auf den Beitrag auch in Englisch antworte, bzw. ich es versuche. ;-)

Andrej,

nice to see that our forum is read in Slovenia too. ;-) Your idea sounds very reasonable for me, specially the error in the location name confirms that possibility. I just checked my entry on qrz.com and saw that it is exactly the same form of my address as on the butterfly envelope, see the "Ö to OE" transcriptions of local German names. That isn't necessarily the reason, as I often use that transcription in English language correspondence, but in connection with the middle initial (M.) of my name on qrz.com it is a good possibility that they harvested the addresses from that database. Maybe they do not took the addresses from the qrz.com site directly, but who knows which "organisation" did the job for their purposes before. Once someone had made such an address database, that listing will be sold to many more "organisations" too. Internet and security are not the same ;-)) But I have no problem with it, as I try to put into the internet "what I really want" or "what I want, what the internet has to know about me"...hi And when I receive such interesting mailings I'm happy with it ;-)

> I didn't trow the letter into the trash but will keep as souvenir.

Even if you are not a philatelist thats a good idea, maybe you became a collector in the future. Do not deter by the idea that philately is the same as stamp collecting. It's an aspect but there are many more interesting aspects to discover. For me I do try to collect and document the modern postal developments and technics plus their "proofs" in the daily mail, e.g. bulk mailing etc. For many people these kind of papers are just spam and rubbish, for (some of) us they are important items to collect. Stupid guys, as all hobbyists are ;-)) Maybe search for "DL8AAM" on that forum (use the "SUCHE" > "Volltextsuche" icons) and see some examples.

Maybe you could scan some items of your daily bulk mail, franked by "postage paid" rubber-stamps, labels or imprints. I haven't seen many from domestic inner-Slovenian mailings before. ;-))

Maybe as a starting point try:

http://www.philaseiten.de/cgi-bin/index.pl?ME=17849
http://www.philaseiten.de/cgi-bin/index.pl?ME=22694
http://www.philaseiten.de/cgi-bin/index.pl?ME=16714
http://www.philaseiten.de/cgi-bin/index.pl?ME=15216
http://www.philaseiten.de/cgi-bin/index.pl?ME=17372
to see several "no postage stamp"-items ;-)

An amateur radio topic is on http://www.philaseiten.de/cgi-bin/index.pl?ME=15744 with "postage free" QSL posting envelopes ofn Russia and the former USSR.

Best regards,
73, Tom - DL8AAM