The "GENEX-Geschenkedienst-GmbH" ("GENEX Present Service Co. Ltd."), based in Mauerstrasse in East Berlin, publishes a new mail-order catalogue. GENEX enables GDR citizens to obtain goods that are rare in the GDR, or even selected Western products.
The products can, however, only be purchased in the West by friends or relatives at higher DM prices and sent to the GDR as "present parcels".
RIAS report on the GDR’s new GENEX mail-order catalogue, 25 February 1980 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: Rundschau am Morgen, Moderator/Textautorin: Wolf-Dieter Roeske, Irmgard Börner)
