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>>On Thu, 13 May 93 15:43:27 GMT Dewi Evans said:
>>>                                                      What about addressing
>>>any mail to: Skol Ober, Gwaremm, Leurven, F-223100 Plufur, Bretagne/Breizh
>>>(/Britanny)?  The F- is sufficient to tell the postal system in one's own
>>>country where it's headed and the rest of the post code is for the
>>>sole purpose of helping poor _La Poste_.
>
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>_La Poste_ is considered as a part of the French administration. There
>had been a judgement last year by the "tribunal administratif" saying
>that _la Poste_ has no obligation to mail letters with addresses in
>Breton because the official language of "la Republique Francaise" is
>French (since the last edition of the French constitution).


Annwyl Philippe,
   I'm going to stick to my guns here.  I find it difficult to believe
that _La Poste_ will refuse to deliver a letter, merely because (out
of courtesy to the Bretons) one has had the presumption to write Britanny
on the envelope.  This has nothing to do with using the Breton forms of
placenames, though I still won't bow to such an unreasonable edict.  I
acknowledge, however, that I have been warned if any of my letters go
astray.
   If I now mysteriously disappear from the face of the earth, the rest
of you will know not to provoke the wrath of the French postal service.

                                Cofion,
                                  Dewi.