jimmyconnors is returned AGAIN :-(

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

There is something missing in this address?

It is in a plain envelope so as not to upset any 

German postal clerk...but it stil was returned.

Perhaps we have to have the street address of the 

Post Office?

we're singin' "NIXIE"!

Let us know please, Mr. Schneider, how we can send mail art to you!

[Mail Art Martha]

Oops, just noticed. The postfach number is 100749 but in William's hand writing there is the slightest of tails on top of the second zero which does not matter if a human reads it but did the machine got it wrong? did it think it was a six? I am as flubbergasted as everybody.

[Mail Art Martha]

I had the same problem sending a card to Mary Berry, in France. It was returned twice. The address does not exist, according to La Poste. The first time I thought it was because I had written the address with many flourishes and the machines they use nowadays could not cope, but the second card was very plain and normal, as a non-mail artist would have written it. I do not know Mary but I liked her theme. As she lives near our holiday haunts I shall try to visit her next summer. Never had a problem with Jimmy. I am about to reply to him and I shall see.

[Heleen de Vaan]

And a blessing for our creativity, in searching and finding creative ways to have our mail art finally arrive into Jimmy's house!

[Heleen de Vaan]

A curse for some senders, but a blessing for the Mail Companies, Economy, etcetera, now that we bravely buy new stamps to re-send our mails to Germany :-)

[William M]

i thought i had escaped this curse - and then i found this in my mailbox today. :(

[Heleen de Vaan]

I'll have a new try :-) Curious to know if my mail will succeed in arriving in Jimmy Connors' hands this time!..

(addressed to 'the addressee (Empfänger) / inhabitant of this p.o.box')

[Bradford]

The recipient's name, "Postfach" with the box number, then the postal code and city, then country name is the proper syntax and all that is required for mail to be delivered in Germany.  Sometimes, the box number is broken down into 2-digit groups, but that is the only variation noted according to my sources.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

'Tis just the quirks of mail art sometimes...

and I have the "NIXIE" stickers from returned mail with wrong(?) or incomplete (?) USA addresses!

Fun to "recycle" them to jimmy connors in Berlin :-)

[Heleen de Vaan]

Maybe, in case you make a complaint, you can ask for free stamps (which you can use yourself because they're German stamps which we cannot use). In this complaint you can tell them that all senders have to re-send, which costs a large amount of new, mint stamps :-)

Furthermore...?  Peace,  Peas, man :-) (Erbsenstein, such a jolly name!)

[PATRICIA LANDON]

had the same problem