European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 1985 the stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Lander s letters dear Ann Landers 1 am divorced 31. And the Mother of four children. After the bind of my last child i had my tubes tied. The Man i have been seeing for More than a year is 29 and wants to have a fam ily of his own. He says he loves me very much but he will not marry me unless i can get that operation reversed. What arc my chances Ann sterile and sorry dear s. And a Only your gynaecologist can answer thai question and he won t know for certain until he docs the surgery. Sometimes it works but often it does to the next l Ter May be of interest to you. Dear Ann Landers my Fiancee just informed me that she had a tubal ligation and cannot have Chil Dren. The reason she had a Young son who had put her through hell and decided never to Lake a Chance on having another child. I love this woman very much and want to marry her anyway. To me this is More important than having children Al though 1 am deeply disappointed. Please Tell your female readers out there to think hard and Long before they make a decision of this kind. One Day they May regret it. Heavy  in . Dear heavy Hart in have told them repeatedly but some of them did t listen. Your Fiancee is Hicky woman to have found a Man like Yon. Perhaps later you both might consider adoption. Dear Ann Landers this letter is not from Yale and i am not trying to be comical. I need your help to find out where Dolly Carton buys her bras. My measurements Are about the same As hers 38dd. I have been to some pretty Good lingerie shops but i still Bunch up in front and come out at the sides. My bosom docs not Fil Inlo the cups the Way it should. I be been kidded a lot about the Dolly Parton look but i be see her in three movies and she always looks neat and Well proportioned on top. I know in is the Bra that docs it. Meanwhile. I look As if 1 am about to topple Over. I would be Ever so grateful if you could Check out miss Parton s source and share it with me. More than i can manage in the Bronx dear Bronx sorry i do not wish to ask Dolly Par Ion where she buys her bras. If she tees your letter and volunteers the information i will be Happy to pass it on. My column appears in the Nashville Banner a 38dd should not be All that difficult to manage. I suggest you go to be lingerie department of a leading department store. The chief filler will give you excellent guidance. It May be that you need to have a 42d altered. There is a solution to your problem and if you Are diligent you will find it. Dear Ann Landers just to Sci the record straight for the gentleman in Connecticut who complained that they have the highest a tax in the nation let the record show hat we in the stale of Washington Seattle in particular. Pay 8.1 percent sales tax and ii percent gasoline tax. To my knowledge this is the highest in the nation. Our scenery is Beautiful Loo. We can afford to cat but Don t turn on a Light or the Utility company will Lake a second mortgage on your Hou filing postal claims in t always simple he says recently i viewed an an to spol announcement about claims through the Post Al service. Well i am Here to Tell you that the spot makes it seem much More simple than it actually is. The spot says that All you have to do is fill out your claim and then in is mailed Back to the states and on to he claims handling of fice. They left Oal the fact that the claim goes Back to the sender who must have a receipt for the goods not an insurance receipt but the actual Purchase receipt the claim will not be submitted without one. I am not telling you this from hearsay but from experience. A Friend in the states bought me two expensive decanters which she had someone mail to me. When they arrived the Box appeared to have been used As wheel blocks for a 747 and ail was lost. Our Friendly postal people helped com plete the claim form and away it went. All was Good until the Post office at the sender s end told us of the requirement for a Purchase receipt. Now 1 do not know about anyone else but neither i nor any of my friends save receipts for this kind of a Purchase decant ers especially when i have Given them As a gift. So now we Are lost As to the next step. I checked with our Post office again and was told that one could get away with a statement from the store or the purchaser revealing the Cost but thai also is nol acceptable to the . Postal system. Being overseas with the mail system a major part of our lives Why Are things so difficult and Why do we drive to go through so much hassle with things like Thisbe pay to insure things against dam age hut then when it comes to claiming it seems As though we arc paying More to have it settled. Please give All the facts if you arc going to give any. And Why push the insurance feature of the postal system if it really docs not always work 1 would like to know who still has receipts for the things they sent through the mail that were purchased months or years ago and How do you get a receipt on a family photo album or personal mementos tech. Sgt. Harry c. Or oven Iii Ramstein a. Germany editor s note maj. Cynthia j. Stewart director of operations 70i5lh air postal so replies we appreciate this Chance to respond to he Reader s inquiry. We understand How the an spot could be misleading to the Patron. We have notified the military postal service which is responsible for the release of the an spot of the prob Lem. To clarify claims processing both the Mailer and addressee must sign the claim form. One important reason is the Mailer entered the item into the postal system and therefore must designate who the Payee on the claim Check will be the Mailer or the addressee. As for evidence of value i quote the United states postal s " Isis Domestic mail Manu 1, paragraph t"".-, evident " Niue Long an interruption explained ".242 evidence of value. The customer must submit evidence of value for Alt claims. All statements must he dated and signed by the Mailer. Acceptable evidence includes a. Sales receipt. A. Invoice. A. Statement of value from a reputable dealer. A. Catalon value of a similar article. A. Statement describing the article lost or damaged including where purchased Date amount and whether the article was new or used. If handmade the Price of material used and labor must be stated. The items must be described in sufficient detail for the postal data Center to deter mine thai the value claimed is accurate. Of. Paid repair Bills estimates of repair costs or appraisals May be used instead of estimates of value in the Case of claims for partial damage. When there is a possibility that the Cost of repair exceeds actual value other evidence of value May he required. A. Statement of Cost for duplication and Premium for surety Bond when the claim is for loss of securities or certificates of  if uses officials refused to accept any of the above items As evidence of value. The Reader has a legitimate complaint. Mailer May file a claim up to one year from the Date of mailing. We suggest the Reader Contact the Mailer and provide the above information so he can again process the claim. If uses officials again refuse ask for and Complete is form 4314-c. Consumer service card and insist on see ing a Post office supervisor. Thanks for the update. Any Utility executives out there wish to respond we Lilno 10 Wilh to  an wac Sonoi recently an advised its Many ice ers in the Wiesbaden military corp onily that reception would be out from 8 a. To 4 . The next Day by crush of Naintre Nance being performed on the Rasmis Sion Tower at Lindsay As. Thar its for the warning an. Patiently your viewers children Home from school Active duty military members off for the weekend family members and Dod civilian employees waited for 4 . To Roll around. Boy were we naive. Some of us even believed that maybe Only another hour was needed to Complete the Job. Of another two hours. But another five hours we realize thai the time in would take to accomplish work on the Tower could not be pinpointed to the minute to Xcvi r. It has been More than five hours longer than the time you had estimated and relayed to your viewers. I guess we should thank an for notifying its viewers at All of the blackout a first in my experience since interruptions in the transmission have occurred several times in the past for up to two hours with no explanation before or after the interruption. A network in the United Stales would t last a week with this Lypp of record. We realize As i m certain an does that Here in Germany the american scr  docs nol have a Choice of Tele vision stations. For this reason an should strive to do the Cost Job possible in keeping ils viewers Happy. I think whal happened today shows that an is not doing that Job. Not All of us can afford Vars. . And mrs. John f. Kinsey Wiesbaden Germany editor s note we received two replies to this letter. The first is from Paul Van Dyke chief of television operations he an Europe information about scheduled transmit Ter outages is provided loan by the 5th signal come s Public affairs office. That information is used to prepare spol announcements which we then broadcast on radio and television to inform the communities affected. An does nol know when outages actually Lake place nor How much time the maintenance actually requires. Maintenance of transmitters and transmission systems which Curry the an television signal is managed by the 5th signal come. Each military Community receiving the an to signal maintains a to trouble Telephone number. When transmission Ditt celtics or Ca arcs occur. Ibis number will be answered by a responsible Community official who reports the interrupted service to the organization which maintains your local system. The second reply is front Cape. Tyrian it. Sunken Public affairs officer he 5th signal come after receiving your letter 5th signal come representatives talked to or. Bon Nelly at Wiesbaden  to investigate Why in took longer than expected to repair the transformer. They confirmed that the outage was scheduled to allow the wies Baden Post engineers to work on a Power transformer at the Wiesbaden air base. The length of the outage was increased due to a requirement that once the Power was restored the circuit breaker on the to transmitter had to be reset. Once notified a 5lh signal come maintenance team had to drive from Kaiserslautern to Check the transmitter and reset the circuit breaker. We understand the frustration you must have experienced. The an to distribution system is single thread which Means unlike the major networks in the United slates in does not have spare pieces of equipment silting next to those in operation. In has been designed this Way to provide an reception to the greatest number of people possible. With redundant equipment such As in the states the number of transmission facilities would be greatly reduced. Still the system is designed to be As efficient As possible. It also Means however that the system is like a Chain if one link is broken everything past the broken link loses the signal. With the Many Small links in the an to distribution system the Odds of equipment failures Are Many limes greater. Thank you for the Chance to explain an operation. We at 5lh signal come do our Best to provide uninterrupted an to to All viewers and apologize for the Long outage. European edition cmdr Jeffrey s. Zakem. Ush Deputy editor in chief . Lilac Kusu. A. 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