[Dx-qsl] Too Cheap
nkeane4
nkeane4 <[email protected]>
Mon Apr 15 10:19:00 2002
> To say that the person that uses the bureaus because they are too cheap is
> the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard. Today I am going to go to
> thePost Office and purchase 40 airmail stamps @.80 ea, plus a GS or 2 in
> each request and you do the math. Being retired and in the hobby for 50
years I get as
> much of a thrill receiving a qsl now as I did 50 years ago and will try to
> hold out as long as possible before I have to succumb to the eQSL. I have
> about 70 other cards that will go the bureau route very shortly and I do
> understand the fact that in some countries the "hams" do have to pay for
> cards that come to them via the bureaus but on the other hand I think that
> many of the non-US hams are making it a money making thing asking for GS.
I
> may be wrong but in the case of the Russian stations a GS would probably
be
> worth much more than their rubles so they could have a surplus. Just my 2
> cents from someone retired on a fixed income. Norm W8KNH
>