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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Letters for Peace
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Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 15:59:29 EDT
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Regarding mail getting thru the Soviet system:

Some months ago, there was a posting about an Italian guy who made about $20K
a year by using the international mails to legally extract money from the
Soviet government. He would send letters to prominent Soviet dissidents, each
of which was insured for the maximum allowable amount (~$400). The Soviets,
of course, never delivered these letters. Somehow, he was able to prove
non-delivery (the posting never stated how this was done), and collect the
insurance from the Italian postal system, which, in turn, collected the
money from the Soviets thru the internation postal organization.

So INSURE your "Letters for Peace" and make money on the deal!

Has anyone on the net been inspired by this info and actually DONE this?
It sounds like a delightful and simple method to become rich for 
essentially no investment and little effort. I haven't tried it,
I guess out of sheer laziness. As soon as it becomes common, the USSR
will either simply drop out of the postal organization or refuse
insured mail, of course, but it seems a good way to get at them in the
short run.

Will