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Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 9, 2011 at 9:46am

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 8, 2011 at 7:37am

Thanks for this inside information! Love to hear more of the experiments and how the travelling of the mail-art continues.....

Comment by ejva:nsva on January 7, 2011 at 5:01am

an update on Chinese postal systems:

today i mailed three packages that were not precisely flat. one work had a small plastic child's ring attached to it, another contained the wrapper from an eyeshadow package that was re-filled with paper, and the last was a piece of stiff paper that had been folded into a triangle shape.

after being questioned about the contents and their value, i still had to fill out a customs form (i think there may have been a fee in the total, but i didn't get a breakdown) for the ring and the eyeshadow. they let the folded paper pass without customs after i demonstrated the folding with a piece of scrap paper.

in the future, i think i'll stay within the bounds of flat paper unless i'm prepared for snafu. i also wonder if the reverse will apply - if someone sends mailart with irregular shapes/attachments, will it be questioned by customs on the Chinese end (would the artist in China never receive it, or have to pay a customs tariff)?

has anyone tried sending unusual items in envelopes to China? another experiment may be in order!

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 6, 2011 at 4:56pm

This weekend I will be sending in for Mail Attack in Shanghai to Amo....!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 6, 2011 at 3:28pm

Well, sending mail to China, and they ( non-Chinese) having friends who are Chinese artists, might just be a beginning. Look what happened on the Greek Embassy group here at IUOMA...all because my dear friend saw my mail art, organized a mail art exhibit and whawhoooo...Greek mail artists come out-of-the-woodwork, so to speak ;-) There have been for years and years Greek mail artists, but now there are MORE, and at IUOMA.

Comment by ejva:nsva on January 6, 2011 at 3:23pm

i understand. i don't mean to be terse, but these are strange suspicions to come out of the blue. i thought the issue was at rest.

to finalize the 'where-in-the-world-is-ejva' saga, i don't mind sharing with other curious persons what i wrote in response to you.

not sure what would give you the suspicion of an elaborate ruse. i never claimed to be Shanghainese. i've just lived here for the past year. i teach drama to Chinese kids.

i don't know anything about another Chinese mailartist with a website from the USA. my website is paid for by my father-in-law who lives in Atlanta, GA because i haven't figured out how to do internet billing here.

i am sorry if you had the idea i am Chinese. i have posted on IUOMA about my inability to speak Chinese, figure out my address etc, corresponded with other members about my doings as a foreigner in China, posted my photo (obviously not Chinese) on the self-portrait group. i'm also on OPENfluxus and have posted there as a foreigner in China.

 

etc. et al. 11:23 in China presently. signing out.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 6, 2011 at 3:18pm

My goal was also to get connections to chinese artists that are interested in Mail-Art.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 6, 2011 at 3:17pm

One doesn't have to be "Chinese" to get mail art in China, right? I did send mail art to China to Horst Baur! And also to the same address of ejva, I sent to Lark Simone for the Kids Mail Art. (You wouldn't be pulling-my-leg on that one now, would you?) We have several "transplanted" in Japan who are not "Japanese...and the one posting this is a Chicagoan transplanted in Greece ("Greek" by marriage ;-).

So the point of this group is to try to send mail art to China...and hopefully to receive mail art from China. Let's see if it works!

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 6, 2011 at 3:13pm

1.	Shanghai	250	10,29	00:13:01	1,60%	35,20%
2.	Beijing	4	4,75	00:02:49	100,00%	25,00%
3.	Putian	2	1,50	00:01:10	100,00%	50,00%
4.	Dongguan	1	10,00	00:09:46	0,00%	0,00%
5.	Xiamen	1	1,00	00:00:00	100,00%	100,00%
6.	Guangzhou	1	2,00	00:00:34	100,00%	0,00%
7.	Nanyang	1	1,00	00:00:00	100,00%	100,00%
8.	Lanzhou	1

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 6, 2011 at 3:12pm

16.

chinanet shanghai province network

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12,42

is your provider.... (won't publish the IP number here)

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