Dear all members,

Many members asked me this questions: “What do you gain as a district governor?”

At my last night as your district governor, I would like to share with you the greatest leadership lesson I learnt this year.

At the last Saturday of March 2011, I received TI’s weekly report and saw that our district still lagged far behind our CC and AC goal. We only completed 1/3 of CC and 1/4 AC and we only have one quarter left. I felt disappointed and even frustrated. Spring was the peak season for my business. I looked at my busy schedule for April and May and then looked back at TI report. I even started to doubt the meaning of fulfilling Toastmasters goals while I was so busy at work.

Then I called my predecessor, Rebecca Hong, who brought me into Toastmasters and had always been my Toastmasters “boss” in my 7 years of life in TMC. She listened to my frustration for almost half an hour and then asked : “Do you have the determination to achieve these goals?” I said, “I’m not sure. I am so busy at work and will be on frequent business travel in the following two months…” She stopped me and said, “What you need right now is your 100% determination to achieve your goals. If you tell yourself you will definitely achieve this goal, you will find the way out. I guess you already know how to get more CCs and ACs, what you really need is your determination!”

After I hang up the phone, I thought over her words again and again–determination, determination and determination.

Then I guess you already knew what we did in the last quarter to mobilize members in all China to achieve their educational awards: motivation, providing resources, tracking and following up…

Now I’m very happy to tell you that our district exceeded our CC and AC targets in the last week of June! 95% of potential ACs on my tracking list achieved their AC goal according to their plan. This is a great team success with determination!

As a leader, if I doubted in my capability to achieve our district’s goals, I could neither infuse the whole district team with passion and determination to achieve the team goal, nor inspire members to achieve their goals. I did feel that after I made up my mind to achieve those two goals whatever happened, I become more courageous and more confident.

Some people might argue that we need to relax in Toastmasters since we already have great pressure at work. It may sound reasonable in some contexts. But I want to point out that don’t let those arguments be your excuses for not moving forward in Toastmasters as well as at your work or life. After all, we join Toastmasters for self development and self fulfillment.

Of course, I cannot do this alone. I’m very grateful for every member who achieved their educational awards in the this year (July 1 2010 to June 30, 2011)! Owing to your effort, we made this seemly impossible task a reality!

At my last night as your district governor, I just want to share with you this greatest leadership lesson I learnt in this year—IN ADVERSITY, YOU NEED TO BE 100% DETERMINED TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL!

Tomorrow we will embark on a new journey. Continue to enjoy your Toastmasters journey! Let’s Achieve Greatness Together! I will always there supporting you!

Yingdan Liu, DTM

District Governor
District 85 2010-2011
Toastmasters International
“Toastmasters: Achieving Greatness Together”
国际演讲会中国区总监 2010－2011
“共同成就伟大”
www.chinatoastmasters.org
www.toastmasters.org

1. Q: I cannot see “Club Central” link after I login: http://www.toastmasters.org/Members.aspx
A: Please ask all your seven club officers (President/VPE/VPM/VPPR/Secretary/Treasurer/SAA) to try their personal account to login and see which officer can get access to club central. Use that officer’s account to login and submit CC/AC/leadership awards for your members for the last two weeks of June.
Since it’s only two weeks left for your current term, it’s okay that you don’t get your club central function. But please remember to update your next term club officers list before end of June to ensure that they can get club central function from July. If they encounter same problem, ask them to email membership@toastmasters.org, report their club number, member number and problem.

2. Q: I was about to apply CC/AC award for a club member. But TI website shows that this member is not a paid member on my member roaster.
A: Check with your VPM and club treasurer whether your club has paid dues renewal for this member on TI website or not. If not, please renew this member asap. If yes, email membership@toastmasters.org and tell them your club number, your club member’s number, and ask them why this member is not a paid member in your club member roaster.

3. Q: I’ve emailed membership@toastmsters.org a few days ago but didn’t renew any reply.
A: Toastmasters International is understaffed currently and June is a peak season for them since it’s the end of this Toastmasters year. For anything urgent, please call 001-949-858-8255 after 11 pm Beijing time and ask the receptionist to transfer your call to membership team.

4. Q: What is the most effective way to state my problem and objective clearly when emailing TI?
A: Please also state your club number and member number in your email subject and in the email body. This will help them find your record sooner. Write your email in this logic: a) Your member ID and club No.; b) What problem you are encountering; c) what you want TI to do. Be direct and to the point. And list bullet points (1,2,3…). This will help Americans understand you. Get to the point at the right beginning!

5. Q: What is the best way to get TI staff’s help on resolving my issue?
A: If you issue is very urgent, the best way is to call them TONIGHT. If not urgent, you might just wait for their email response. It might take them 2 weeks to respond your email. But since June is a busy month for them, if your issue is not urgent, I suggest you wait till July since we have lots of urgent issues for them to resolve.

Should you have more questions, please feel free to contact your area governor, division governor or me.

Cheers!

Yingdan Liu, DTM

District Governor
District 85 2010-2011
Toastmasters International
“Toastmasters: Achieving Greatness Together”
国际演讲会中国区总监 2010－2011
“共同成就伟大”
www.chinatoastmasters.org
www.toastmasters.org

Dear all,

The Changshu Can-Do Toastmasters previous meeting on May 22 was covered by the local TV station, thanks to the efforts of the club president Elizabeth Chen.

You can view the

Changshu TV station, report about TOASTMASTERS click the link below ：
http://www.21cs.cn/details/?id=315018

Wally
Outgoing AG L3

by Alex Cheng
原文链接: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6c13e4480100rtlw.html

今晚的Meeting中，Twinsen在解构时间管理时提到了Passion，说拥有Passion非常重要，但能否长期保持住Passion就因人而异了，无法做到技术性控制。

在朋友们眼里，我可能就是那种可以长期保持Passion的异类。不过，就我对自身的了解，我也是有例假的，这个假期或长或短、或深或浅，如果不进行技术性调节，就会陷于痛苦的抑郁中，这种感觉，谁经历谁知道。

我现在有很多方法来保持自己的激情，其中效果最好的一项就是参加Toastmasters会议，没有之一。参加一次Toastmasters会议的过程，就像完成一次人体充电，一次充电可以维持3-4天，所以我每周会参加两次这样的会议，前提条件是一定要担任角色，上台发言的时间越长效果越佳。

担任一个角色，比如主持人或总体评估，你就要履行这个角色的职责，而且需要在讲台上将你的职责做成演讲，诠释给观众，这个过程需要大脑的高速运转，精神高度集中。这种专注可以把我们的大脑从一天迷迷糊糊的工作状态中解脱出来，思维变得清晰、敏捷。每次上台时得到观众热烈的掌声，下台时又是一阵热烈的掌声，真的是爽歪歪啊！

有人曾经调查最令美国人恐惧的几件事，排在首位的是做公共演讲，而对死亡的恐惧只排在了第三位。没有足够多演讲历练的人站在台上或多或少都会有紧张感，尤其在我们经常变换会议室布局、每次都有新朋友加入的情况下。有人曾经调查过，轻微的紧张感往往可以让人超水平发挥，我甚是同意。这种轻微的紧张感可以帮助我们分泌更多激素，让我们变得更加的High,在你High的同时,台下观众对你进行同步或者更加热烈的回应，那感觉，真的是像打了鸡血一样！

假如你担任一个非常具有挑战性的角色，比如参加即兴演讲、第一次做主持人或者参加演讲比赛等等，内心会有强烈的紧张感，极不舒服，这就是心里舒适区收到挑战了。这是个好的信号，当你收到心理舒适区遭到挑战的信号后，就可以暗示自己，提高的机会来了，越难受，就越上。即兴演讲主持人来提问题了，你的心在狂跳，你这个时候应该是一种嗜血的状态，管它舒不舒适，老子就是要举手，哪怕大脑一片空白，也敢于站在讲台上，下来后，你便能享受内心那种超然的感觉，双手也会由冰凉渐渐变成火热。上台几次后，就没有任何紧张的感觉了，思维也清晰了，在台下观众火热目光的注视下，就又High了。

每次到Toastmasters，我们都会结交很多新的朋友，新老朋友在一起进行思想的碰撞，一起做大脑马杀鸡，绝对刺激啊！我今天在中场休息前让每位观众去交换至少三个微博，5分钟后，就有七位新粉丝关注了我，我同时也关注了他们。由于中场休息时大家的热情互动，整个下半场那叫一个High啊，好几个人都跟我说热血沸腾了。

Toastmasters的会员们来自各行各业，没有政治、没有勾心斗角，只有相互的学习、相互的分享、共同的提高，大家的欢笑是那么的真实，开心的是那么的彻底。有个会员曾经说过，每周五来到我们俱乐部容易脸上长皱纹，是笑的。

Toastmasters是一个可以让我们开开心心地快速提高个人能力的国际非盈利组织，也是我的人体充电器。今天的电充的很满，Passion继续！

Dear all Members at Hong Kong & Macau,
各位親愛的香港澳門會友們，

Only 2 months left when 2011 Xiamen Conference open (May 13-15), have you decided to come to join us? This will be a impressive memory in your life journey.
離2011年5月13日-15日的廈門大會開幕僅2各月的時間了，您決定參加這場盛會了嗎？它將會是你生命旅行中難忘的一次經歷。

How much you need to pay for this journey? 參加大會需要多少的錢？

1. Airline tickets, HKD 970 for round trip. 機票：往返970港幣。
2. Hotel, HKD355 for 2 nights, the hotel is in the meeting venue and locate at the seaside. 酒店：2晚355港幣，酒店位處大會會場內部，並且坐落海邊。
3. Conference ticket, HKD 590 for 2-day fantastic activities. 大會門票：590港幣，即可參與2天的全部活動。
4. Touring fee, 200 RMB-1000 RMB depend on different touring project. 旅行費：如果您想要參加本地旅行圖遊覽廈門，可選擇100-1000港幣不等的旅遊計劃。

What you could enjoy at Xiamen? 來到廈門你能夠感受到什麽？

1. Delicious food: fresh & cheap seafood, varied local snack, nice Chinese tea. 美味食物：新鮮便宜的海鮮、多樣的本地小食、中國茶。
2. Attractive historic place & scenic beauty: Gulang Island, Island Ring Road, Putuo Temple, modern café. 美丽的景色：鼓浪屿、环岛路、普陀寺。
3. Beautiful Season: May is one of the most amazing seasons at Xiamen. 美好的季节：5月是厦门最美的季节了！

How to buy the ticket and book the hotel? 如何購買大會門票及預訂酒店？

Prepare 590 HKD and contact the ticket officer 準備好590港幣，并聯繫當地的會務主任：

Hong Kong Billy Fu fubilly@gmail.com +852 61226092
Macau Americo Viseu aviseu@dssopt.gov.mo +853 66882861

You also could visit the conference blog for more information: http://xiamen2011.blog.sohu.com/?TPSecNotice

–
Best Regards~

Ann ^_^ 张纯

2011 Spring Conference Chair, District 85
“Shine Out Loud”
2011年85大区春季峰会主席

Dear Toastmasters,

Have you watched “The King’s Speech” yet? Today I appeared, quoting my capacity as Lieutenant Governor Marketing of China, Toastmasters International, on a local newspaper of Hong Kong commenting on how executives can improve their public speaking, taking examples from that movie.

本人今天於香港經濟日報的訪問：睇《皇上無話兒》 學帝王級演講 熟人面前練習壯膽 唱歌急口令練口齒
(本人今天于香港经济日报的访问：睇《皇上无话儿》 学帝王级演讲 熟人面前练习壮胆 唱歌急口令练口齿)

I have included a website posting reference onto my Sina blog : http://t.sina.com.cn/seanlinhk

Feel free to use it or refer it to your fellow Toastmasters and potential members / new clubs, and hope that it can serve you as a piece of marketing tools in extending the benefits of Toastmasters to more people.

Have a great weekend to come!

Sean LIN, DTM
Lieutenant Governor Marketing
District 85, Toastmasters International
w. www.chinatoastmasters.org
e. sean@seanlin.com

“Achieve Greatness Together”

Dear Toastmasters members,

Set your goal, now is time to GO for it.

#1 Useful resources share for your CC Goal

On your way to complete your Competent Communication Manual, are your have difficulties to find your speech topic? Here come our resources sharing #1:

How to find Speech Ideas? Look at Your Life!

10. Inspire Your Audience (Objectives: Challenge audience to achieve higher level of beliefs or achievement; appeal to needs and emotions, use stories, anecdotes, quotes.)
Choose a special event in your life; maybe a challenge you’ve overcome, a successful venture, or perhaps a life-changing decision you’ve made, and explain the importance of the event or what you learned from it. Present it in a way that the audience can also learn those lessons or be inspired by your experience.
Once you’ve completed the basic manual, you can apply the same format of life story to many of the advanced manuals: The Entertaining Speaker, Speaking to Inform, Specialty Speeches, The Professional Speaker, Persuasive Speaking, Storytelling, and Humorously Speaking could all be used effectively to share your life experiences.
How others perform this project, learn from others!
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/0-ullhYu-20/
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/7HUsdF32x8Q/

9. Persuade with Power (Objectives: Use logic and emotion to appeal to audience; persuade them in some way.)
What are you passionate about? What social causes do you believe in? With what organizations do you volunteer? Any of these issues can educate an audience while also allowing you to explain your viewpoints, beliefs, concerns and passions. If you can convince a member of your audience to get involved in a specific cause, everyone wins!
How others perform this project, learn from others!
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/3d0XtS3DxRM/

8. Get Comfortable with Visual Aids (Objectives: Select visual aids appropriate for message; use them correctly and with confidence.)
While we normally associate visual aids with business meetings and seminars, their use can also be an excellent way to demonstrate a hobby, skill or talent you enjoy. I’ve seen props used to demonstrate the steps involved in building model ships, needlework techniques, food preparation, and scrapbooking. Computer- based visuals can flash pictures of a favorite trip on the screen. A flip chart or whiteboard can be used to list specific instructions for a craft or hobby that you enjoy.
How others perform this project, learn from others!
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/YtKqnH5w4_M/

CC7. Research Your Topic (Objectives: use facts, examples and illustrations gathered from various sources through research.)
This would be a great time to speak about a favorite relative. Research how your ancestors ended up here. Bring photos of your grandparents and tell how they managed through the Depression. Tell about an uncle’s experience in WWII or Vietnam, and include information about the political attitudes of the era. Once you begin, the research will be fun, and you’ll be adding to your own life’s history by including the history of your ancestors.
How others perform this project, learn from others!
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/JHCJkIn_HcM/

#1 Useful resources share for your AC Goal

On your way to complete your Advance Competent Communication Manual, are your have difficulties of how to do it? Here come our resources sharing #1.

How to find Speech Ideas? Look at Your Life!

All ways remember that: It is what you believe that can mostly affect and can persuade others!

And also, you can find 7500+ speech ideas from the following website:
http://www.speech-topics-help.com/

Learn from others, being inspired by sharing of how to conduct AC manual

Humorously Speaking Manual
by Friedhelm W Maur, DTM from Pudong Toastmasters Club and Susan Zhou, DTM from China Advanced Toastmasters Club
Interpretive Reading
By K. Beate Richter, DTM from iGrow Toastmasters Club
Public Relations
By K. Beate Richter, DTM from iGrow Toastmasters Club
The Professional Speaker Manual
By K. Beate Richter, DTM from iGrow Toastmasters Club
Specialty Speeches Manual
by Danial Smith, DTM from China Advanced Toastmasters Club

3 Rules for Capturing Audience Interest
Rule 1: Counter-program 超出听众预计
The audience has expectations. If they’ve heard you before, they think they know what to expect. If they haven’t heard you, they group you with other keynoters or speakers they’ve heard from your industry.
You have to break through their preconceptions.
If everyone else is using text-heavy PowerPoint support, consider using dramatic photos.
If everyone else is forecasting the future of your industry, focus on eye-opening lessons from the past.
If your public personal is fire-breathing, use a more “fireside” style.
听众有期望，如果他们曾经听过你的观点，或者他们以为他们知道接下来的内容。或者即使没听过你的相关演讲，但从其他演讲者的演讲中了解过类似的内容——总而言之，听众认为他们已经知道了你打算讲的内容：
你必须跳出听众的先入为主概念。
如果所有人都是用填满文字的PPT，你应该考虑使用漂亮的图片
如果其他人的演讲只关注未来的发展，你就讲讲从过去经历中学到的经验教训
如果大家觉得你是一个充满激情的演讲者，你应尝试一下对话式娓娓道来的演讲

Rule 2: Speaker support should only support 演讲辅助工具只是辅助的
You’ve seen them all. Text-flooded PowerPoint slides that look like pages of a book. Charts dense with information, with typeface reduced to barely readable size so it all fits on a slide.
Every time a new slide comes up, the audience stops listening to the speaker while reading the slide. Then there are those presenters who speak straight from their slides, adding few ad-libs or spontaneous thoughts.
People can either read the slides or listen to the speaker, but they cannot do both simultaneously. If you are simply parroting your slides, you’ve essentially made yourself superfluous, maybe even a nuisance.
Once, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, attends a PowerPoint presentation given by a GE staff member. The speaker was reading directly from each slide, and finally Welch, fed up, called out, “Look, I can read as well as you can. If this is your presentation, why don’t you just hand me your slides and we can be done with it.”
If you must use PowerPoint, use it as an outline only to prompt your memory and give your audience a roadmap. After all, it’s not your software giving the speech – it’s you!
你应该曾经见过，布满文字的PPT，像书一样；图表中充斥着大量的信息，细小的字体，完全没办法有效阅读。
每一次当PPT翻过新的一页，听众就将更多的注意力放在PPT页上。甚至还有演讲者甚至直接读PPT的内容，同时增加一两句下意识的评论。
听众可以把注意力集中在PPT上，或演讲者身上，但不能同时集中在两者。如果你仅仅是鹦鹉学舌般的把PPT的内容读出来，那么你就把自己放到了演讲中可有可无的角色中，甚至是惹人讨厌的角色中。
杰克韦尔奇，GE的执行总裁，有一次参加GE内部员工的演讲。当时的演讲者的演讲，只是直接把PPT的内容逐字念出来。杰克韦尔奇最终忍无可忍，打断其演讲，喝道：我和你一样，有阅读的能力，如果你这样演讲，不如直接把PPT打印分发，不需要演讲了！
如果你要使用PPT，记住，PPT的目的只是，展示你演讲的轮廓，帮助你记忆主要内容，以及让听众有更清晰的全局观。千万记住，是你做演讲，而不是你的PPT做演讲。

Rule 3: Play the Audience “捉弄”听众
A speech is live theater. You don’t have to entertain, but you do have to tell a compelling story. The audience is not out to get you…usually. But they won’t hang on your every word either, unless you lure them in.
So know your audience – and your speaking environment. Use your best sense of what they want from you – and give them something more, or something different, or something that bends their perspective.
一个演讲，就像一个舞台剧。你不一定要娱乐听众，但你要讲述一个引人入胜的故事。通常情况下听众不会全神贯注的听你的演讲，需要你用精彩的表现吸引他们
所以做演讲前了解你的听众，了解环境。了解信息后，充分思考：观众最希望从你的演讲中得到什么收获？然后给与他们更多的，不一样的，超出期望的演讲

General introduction of all AC manual:
1. The Entertaining Speaker
2. Speaking to Inform
3. Public Relations
4. Facilitating Discussion
5. Specialty Speeches
6. Speeches by Management
7. The Professional Speaker
8. Technical Presentations
9. Persuasive Speaking
10. Communicating on Television
11. Storytelling
12. Interpretive Reading
13. Interpersonal Communications
14. Special Occasion Speeches
15. Humorously Speaking

–
Ligo Wang
Lt. Governor of Education and Training
District 85
Toastmasters International 2010-2011
“Toastmasters: Achieving Greatness Together”
www.chinatoastmasters.org

Dear Toastmasters Friends,
各位亲爱的会员朋友们，

In this coming Toastmaster Spring Conference 2011, Rory Vaden will bring us 2 programs on May 14 and 15, 2011 respectively. In last promotion letter, we introduced Rory Vaden as Toastmasters 2007 World Champion of Public Speaking First Runner-Up and today we will introduce his workshops in brief.
在即将来临的2011年春季大会上， Rory Vaden将带来两个主题演讲。在上次的宣传函中，我们向您介绍了2007年全球演讲比赛亚军Rory Vaden，今天我们将简单扼要地介绍一下这次大会上他将带来的主题演讲。

Introduction to Rory Vaden’s workshops
关于Rory Vaden的主题演讲的介绍

1. Take the Stairs- Success Means Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do –Time: 1-1.5hours
成功意味着做你不想做之事– 时间：1-1.5小时

Success is different for each of us, but the path to get there has the same obstacles: fatigue, rejection, failure, distraction, burnout, complacency, and countless others. And yet there is one common characteristic and one universal trait that virtually every single successful person must have before accomplishing their goals: discipline – the discipline to do the things they don’t want to do. Self-discipline strategist and motivational speaker Rory Vaden shares key insights and erases common misconceptions about how to build lasting self-discipline.
每个人对成功有不同的定义，但是在通往成功的路上，我们会遇到相同的障碍：疲劳厌倦，拒绝排斥，失败，心烦意乱，精力耗尽，自鸣得意及其他无数。但是，你会发现，要达到目标取得成功，每个成功人士身上都具备着一个相同的特征：自我约束 – 做自己不想做的事情的自我约束。自我约束战略家和励志演说家Rory Vaden将与我们分享关于此话题的独到见解并帮助大家消除关于建立持久自我约束力的常见误解。

2. The Audience is NOT in their Underwear – The Discipline of Mastering Presentation Skills–Time: 1-1.5hours

Whether in front of an audience of 1 or 1000, presentations can be scary. Everybody knows that presentation skills are more important than ever and that there is an unspoken expectation that every presenter should be entertaining and engaging. What most people don’t know is that there are secret presentation techniques that even the best speakers in the world rely on to look better than they are. Applying these universal formulas is certain to not only increase your confidence as a presenter, but your income, as well. Toastmaster World Championship Finalist and professional speech coach Rory Vaden will help you overcome the fear of public speaking and enlighten you with some of the best techniques ever available.
不管台下只有1个观众还是1000个观众，做演讲让人紧张，甚至让人害怕。大家都知道，演讲的技巧是至关重要的。而且观众有一个不言而喻的期望：每个做演讲的人应该是愉悦大众，吸引人的。大多数人都不知道，即使是世界上最厉害的演说家都依靠秘密的演讲技巧使得他的演讲更加精彩。运用这些演讲技巧，无疑能够提升你作为演讲者的自信心，同时提高你的收入水平。Toastmaster全球演讲比赛亚军和专业的演讲教练Rory Vaden将帮助你克服公共演讲的畏惧心理，用最好的演讲技巧启发你。

For more information about Take the Stairs, please visit www.takethestairstour.com.
欲了解更多详情，请登录www.takethestairstour.com.

For more information about Rory Vaden and his workshops, please visit http://rory@roryvaden.com .
更多关于Rory Vaden的信息，请登录http://rory@roryvaden.com .

To see Rory Vaden’s video, please link to登录以下链接预览Rory Vaden精彩视频: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjM5OTkyOTU2.html

If you are interested in these programs, please don’t hesitate to join us in Toastmaster Spring Conference 2011.
如果您对这些演讲主题感兴趣的话，欢迎您参加2011年春季大会。

For more details about 2011 Xiamen Spring Conference, please visit our blog:
http://xiamen2011.blog.sohu.com/.

请登录我们的博客http://xiamen2011.blog.sohu.com/了解更多关于2011年厦门春季峰会的相关信息。

Best regards,

Promotion Team
2011 Xiamen Spring Conference
“Shine Out Loud”

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By L3 Area Governor Wally Marek

China Post, the main postal service in China operates on addresses written in Chinese characters. To deliver mail addressed in English the post office uses translators, often the person who does this job is not stationed at a particular post office but moves around to post offices on a regular basis to translate foreign incoming mail.

With this system some problems arise:
1. Mail has to wait until the translator arrives.
2. Translations (correct addresses) rely on the ability of the translator
3. Your mail is possibly on the bottom of the translator’s pile and it doesn’t get processed on the first visit
4. If the translators box, or clearing room gets filled up, then it probably gets emptied out and your mail is never seen again

Actions that may help the mail get through:

• Use only the one mailing address for all mail, including the Toastmaster Magazine
• Provide a cell phone number with the address. Often the post office will call the number if it has one. Toastmasters International should include the cell phone number with all mail addresses in China. This is considered normal protocol here
• Go to the post office and find out who the translator is. Get to know the days they visit and meet them if you can.
• Provide the post office and the translator with a written translation containing both the English text and the Chinese, so that they may easily be able to match it with the address on the mail. Include the addressees cell phone number.
• Talk to the manager of the post office, if you can, and offer to help. This could be in the form of club membership for the translator or interested China Post staff.
• Think about setting up a Toastmasters Club in China post. I noticed that FedEx has set up a club in China. They may know something of the mysteries of the postal system and might be able to advise us
• In Australia, Toastmasters has a Club in Australia Post Headquarters: PostMasters Club – Club #: 2322, Dist #: 73, Est: 09/27/2001 Australia Post HQ – Cambridge Room 10.32 . 10/111 Bourke St., Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia. Why not in China?
• District 85 set up a District Supply Centre: In Australia there are District Supplies – Toastmasters District 70 – NSW Australia. We will supply all clubs in Australia POST FREE but do not ship outside Australia. … Toastmasters International District 70. Revised: 31 December, 2010.

Ask District 70 how they do it.

Please tell me what you have discovered about your lost Toastmasters mail, and how to avoid it getting lost.