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UPU hides behind the skirts of Swiss law

We now have the letter from the UPU regarding their continuing libels about our source.

In the letter (see below), the UPU's legal representative, O. Meylan Braachi, categorically states that the UPU issues circulars based on information supplied by member countries without checking any of that information; that only the Postal Administrations of a country can issue postage stamps and that the UPU is protected by Swiss law from any legal attack as a result of it's actions.

This letter indicates exactly what sort of never-never land the UPU lives in.

Corruption

Any corrupt official in a Postal Administration can issue a contract to issue stamps to a legitimate dealer and then write a letter to the UPU telling them that there is no contract.

The UPU will then help him in his fraud by denouncing in their worthless circulars any stamps issued by the dealer as illegal, without ever finding out whether a genuine contract exists.

The dealer, who has paid substantial fees for a contract to issue stamps on behalf of that Postal Administration, is left with nowhere to turn for legal redress.

If a Postal Administration can be shown to have issued a contract to a third party to issue stamps on it's behalf, how can it remain as a member of the UPU?

It has broken the rules of the Universal Postal Convention and all the stamps issued by that country should be declared illegal and the countries membership of the UPU revoked.

Otherwise, what is the point of the UPU?

Is it just a cosy club where members can get away with any illegal act without fear of prosecution?

Scrap the UPU

The UPU hides behind the voluminous skirts of the Swiss legal system when they are asked to justify their ridiculous behaviour in court.

The Postal Administrations are unassailable in their own courts and do not recognise the jurisdiction of the courts in the dealer's home country.

In our opinion, this action makes the UPU accessories to a criminal act - a criminal act that can never be prosecuted.

This is the moral and ethical framework in which the UPU operates as they pretend to uphold the values of the world of philately.

While they are consorting with their rich friends at parties and conferences, they ignore the activities of real criminals like Sako Khatchikian and aid and abet fraudulent activity with their uninformed pronouncements.

In 1978, the UPU officially confirmed that our source was the official concessionaire for the production of stamps for Equatorial Guinea. If they are so emphatic that only the Postal Administrations can issue stamps, why was the Director General of the UPU able to confirm to the Michel Catalogue - a catalogue with an increasingly tainted reputation - that a third party was officially sanctioned to produce stamps for a country? Why have the rules changed?

Stamp Scandal.com calls for the Kofi Anaan and the United Nations to scrap the UPU and for an unbiased, accountable organisation to be formed in it's stead; an organisation that will dedicate itself to the exposure of fraudulent activity by Postal Administrations and the elimination of actual illegal stamps.