{"id":3514,"date":"2012-01-11T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2012-01-11T17:35:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:35:16","slug":"tiger-stamps-la-poste-places-apology-on-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tiger-stamps-la-poste-places-apology-on-website\/","title":{"rendered":"TIGER STAMPS: LA POSTE PLACES APOLOGY ON WEBSITE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Colombo Telegraph &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ltte-stamps-colombotelegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3519\" title=\"ltte-stamps-colombotelegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ltte-stamps-colombotelegraph.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ltte-stamps-colombotelegraph.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ltte-stamps-colombotelegraph-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In an announcement on the website of\u00a0<em>La Poste<\/em>\u00a0concerning the printing of stamps &#8220;representing members and symbols of the Tamil movement &#8216;Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam&#8217;, an organization listed as terrorist by the European Union since 2006&#8221;,\u00a0the French Postal Authority\u00a0says &#8220;this is the first grave incident that Phil@poste has known in the printing of personalized postal stamps&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement says La Poste\u00a0has been the &#8220;victim of unscrupulous and manipulative customers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It says\u00a0that in addition to written apologies,\u00a0two directors,\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Chalvet, Director\u00a0of Sales and Marketing, and Louis Virgile,\u00a0Director of\u00a0Strategy and International have\u00a0apologized to the Ambassador of Sri Lanka\u00a0in Paris ,\u00a0in person on behalf of\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Phil@poste\" target=\"_blank\">Phil@poste<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:black;\">The English language translation of the full text of\u00a0its statement is given below:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leportaildutimbre.fr\/af\/laposte\/actualites\/phil@newsAffichageArticle.do;jsessionid=EB929AD4A4680F4180BFB518760CFE69.node0?articleOID=66319&amp;channelId=-31174\">Communiqu\u00e9 of Phil@poste regarding the printing of Tamil Tiger PPS<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:x-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>January 5, 2012<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?ui=2&amp;ik=4d0bca5f22&amp;view=att&amp;th=134cdbf598dd9ee7&amp;attid=0.0.1.2&amp;disp=emb&amp;zw\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"119\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"12\" \/>In December 2011, a customer ordered, on the website of\u00a0<em>Montimbramoi<\/em>(Myownstamp)<em>,<\/em>\u00a0sheets of personalized postal stamps (PPS) representing members and symbols of the Tamil movement \u201cLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam\u201d, an organization listed as terrorist by the European Union since 2006. These stamps were printed on December 14, 2011, a holiday season during which the printing office of Phil@poste in Boulazac had to deal with more than 2,000 requests of personalized postal stamps per week. Moreover, a few days ago, people posing as &#8220;cultural actors&#8221; also had stamps printed at the\u00a0<em>Carr\u00e9 d\u2019Encre<\/em>\u00a0shop.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;\">It should be recalled that, in the\u00a0<em>Montimbramoi<\/em>\u00a0general terms and conditions of sale, the customer must validate on the website, for each order, the visuals he chose, then engaging his own liability. In addition to this, the commercial teams perform a systematic verification of the proposed visuals. In this moment of &#8220;overload&#8221;, these personalized postal-stamps exceptionally escaped the vigilance of the said control. For over five years, this is the first grave incident that Phil@poste has known in the printing of personalized postal stamps.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;\">Since several days, Phil@poste has been in touch with both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Paris on this matter. All doubts have been clarified regarding the liability of Phil@poste, victim of unscrupulous and manipulative customers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;\">Beyond the written apologies, Fran\u00e7ois Chalvet, Director\u00a0 of Sales and Marketing, and I have met this Thursday, January 5, His Excellency the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to apologize in person on behalf of Phil@poste.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;\">Louis Virgile, Director &#8211; Strategy and International<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;\">Phil@poste<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:xx-small;\"><span style=\"line-height:13px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leportaildutimbre.fr\/af\/laposte\/actualites\/phil@newsAffichageArticle.do;jsessionid=EB929AD4A4680F4180BFB518760CFE69.node0?articleOID=66319&amp;channelId=-31174\">www.leportaildutimbre.fr<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source:\u00a0<span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;\">Embassy of Sri Lanka &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;\">Paris<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1773,1735,1774,1775,1776,1318,1777],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-embassy-of-sri-lanka-paris","tag-ltte-stamps","tag-ltte-stamps-in-france","tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-philposte","tag-tamil-daispora","tag-tiger-stamps"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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