Thank you Celt and to those who enlightened me via PM
TYVM
HTH
INPOSDOM is actually a functioning postal service. I used it for all my mail for several years and never lost anything.
Then the bottom fell out and MOST of my mail was not getting through. I went to the main post office in Santo Domingo in la Feria and a supervisor looked into it and told me there was a new postman on my route.
A friend of mine told me about Business Mail and I signed up and never looked back.
I have interests in the USA that have tax consequences. Last year I finished my state and federal tax returns at the last minute and realized that if I sent them via Business Mail they would reach Miami and be stamped, mailed and postmarked after the cutoff date and I would be subject to late penalties.
Since I didn't owe so much I decided to send the two letters from INPOSDOM. I went there and asked them to hand cancel it which they did but their hand cancel does not have a date on it so I just hand wrote in the cancel stamp 14/4/2007.
The checks were posted back to my US Bank account within 10 days.
Many situations here involve a leap of faith. It's like doing a header off a cliff in the dark. Will you land in the water or on the rocks? If you jump you find out.