Helping to Start a Permanent exhibition on the Island most
Far and isolated on the planet
TRISTAN DA CUNHA
Please send one of your Art Work to :
Post Office & Philatelic Bureau
Tristan da Cunha, TDCU 1ZZ
South Atlantic Ocean
Location: Some where in the Southern Atlantic Ocean
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Your welcome, Susan. The TDC website is a real rabbit hole. they sell stamps, postcards, even hand knitted sweaters and penguins!
Not sure who exactly is expecting mail art on the island! There's no info about any collection.
Thanks for all this information, Jeff. It sounds as if my Mail Art will have just missed a March delivery!
It sounds like getting any mail onto the island will be an accomplishment!
And from the TDC philatelic store page:
"Nine scheduled ships a year bring mail from Cape Town to the world's most remote community. The last 2009 ship leaves Cape Town on 26th November. Miss this last post before Christmas and the next post is not due until 3rd March 2010, a gap of three months. So it is hardly surprising that the arrival of post is an important event on the island."
Not sure if this helps, but here is the Tristan Da Cunha post office website and the info they give there: https://www.tristandc.com/postoffice.php
The settlement there is called Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, but that doesn't seem necessary.
Contact the Post Office by email: postoffice@tdc-gov.com or phone: (44) 0203 014 5103 |
By post: Postmistress, Post Office, Tristan da Cunha, TDCU 1ZZ, South Atlantic Ocean, (Via Cape Town, South Africa) |
Actually, that four-line one in French is not mine, Bradford. That one was sent by Sandra Gaches, who lives in France (see below); I don't know if she had any delivery problems. I wrote the address, in English, exactly as instructed at the top of the Tristan da Cunha page. I'll report what the Post Office says after I talk to them.
The main problem with the address is not the language, but the format. In all cases (countries) you should put the country LAST. Placing it on the 2nd line of 4 lines is never a good idea. In fact, having "South Atlantic Ocean" in French as the 4th line is superfluous anyway. It should be spelled, "TRISTAN DA CUNHA" for the best result. Some underline the country name once or twice as well, but not necessary.
I posted my art to the address shown above and it was just returned to me with the following message: INSUFFICIENT ADDRESS. MUST SHOW DESTINATION IN ENGLISH. ???!!?? I know the United States is pretty insular and monolingual, but it seems that the Post Office doesn't even know its own language. I will try to talk to a real human P.O. official about this next week. In the meantime, does anyone have any other suggestion?
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