[Dx-qsl] QSLing Complaint (or Rant)

Wed Feb 18 17:54:01 2004

George
It may not be what you think.
This has happened to a lot of people, myself included.
It's usually caused because the sender did NOT include return postage.
Or.
The return postage was pilfered in the mail.
Or.
Recently the dollar has lost value considerably and if the postage was 
provided, it may no longer be enough to return.
I like to give the station the benefit of the doubt. He tried to get
a qsl card back to a requester.
So while it may SEEM to be strange, lets assume he was trying to 
overcome obstacles not of his maker.
What makes be believe that is he simply could have chucked the other 
qsl request, but he didn't. 
So I'm going to assume he tried his best.
I'm a manager, I don't get many 'pilfered' requests, but it does happen.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George McCrary" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 4:46 PM
Subject: [Dx-qsl] QSLing Complaint (or Rant)
> Guys,
>> I know I'm "preaching to the choir" here and I try not to
> clutter the reflector with pointless complaints, but on the off chance
> that it might reach someone who needs to hear it..here goes.
>> I received a envelope today (I won't mention the station) that
> included a card for another U.S. ham along with my card. Geez that
> annoys me! At least in some cases I've had managers put a note like
> "please forward", include the other guys SAE or even include a stamped
> envelope ready to drop in the U.S. mail. But there is no excuse for just
> tossing a card in like this guy did! It honestly annoys me less to get a
> direct card back via the buro than to have this happen!
>> If anyone knows W8OLI you can let him know that he will (of
> course) get his 3X card from me, and hopefully if he's ever in this spot
> he will do the same for someone else.
>>> Regards,
>>> George (K8QM)
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