The following letter has been sent to the Universal Postal Union (U.P.U) pursuing a claim for libel by the U.P.U. against our source. Despite being advised many times that they were libelling our source, the U.P.U. seems to believe that it has a privileged position, almost diplomatic immunity, in regard to making defamatory statements against legitimate stamp dealers without checking the source of their information. A pdf containing all the background documents to this sustained and pernicious attack by a United Nations organisation that is meant to pursue real transgressors without fear or favour is available here (specific details relating to the Senegal stamps can be found here, Equatorial Guinea here and the Spanish Government here).

As of today's date, February 16th 2004, the U.P.U. has made no reply to this letter (they have a history of not replying to solicitors' letters). If their case is so good, why have they not replied in two weeks? What are they afraid of?

The Philatelic Exporter magazine has reflected their concern regarding these activities of the UPU in an article in the March issue.

The saga continues with the UPU happy to denounce specific dealers who don't seek their favours while keeping others anonymous. This entirely contradicts their stated practice which is to pass on information supplied by the countries themselves in the form of circulars. Why do they print one circular with the dealers name and then remove the names from another?

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