[Dx-qsl] Qsl'ing

Sat Jul 20 09:07:00 2002

Hi all......I am kinda curious as to a couple of things. I have never been or 
sponsored a DXpedition, but I truely appreciate the efforts of those who do. 
I work the ops with my little station, send my card with a return envelope, 
try to remember to put USA on my return address, and always send a coupls of 
bux extra, maybe more depending. I have had a very good return rate, and only 
occaisionally have had to resubmit. My question is, WHY would a group go to 
all the expense and time to go to some forsaken spot and work a few thousand 
guys, but then not use a QSL manager, or have you mail your cards to a place 
where mail pilferage is KNOWN to be a real problem. I would think that the 
group would want to get all the cards and contributions they could to help 
defray their own QSL costs. I'm sorry, but I cannot see the logic in NOT 
using a manager that resides in a low mail pilferage area. The recent QSL 
thing with the K1B operation was confusing to me because I was on the road 
and missed the beggining of the whole QSL thing. I sent mine where the webb 
site said to send it. I just feel that, from what I read here, that QSL's 
were being "bought" at the price of a "contribution". I was corrected and 
accept that. Anyone remember Romeo???? Anyone wanna buy a couple of Romeo 
cards??? Anyway, I was just curious, when there are so many really fine QSL 
managers who do the best they can to get you a card, and you can mail with 
the confidence that you have a pretty good chance of him getting it, a 
manager's service would not be used.Thanks.........Al/W8FAX
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