[Dx-qsl] QSLing Complaint (or Rant)

Wed Feb 18 21:26:01 2004

 One card may not seem like much after all it costs me is another envelope and 0ドル.37 cents. I have been at the DX game long enough to know what can and usually will happen to a card once mailed but there are not enough mitigating circumstances for me to contribute to another stations QSLing. If they will respond to an email then I will await their SASE, past that point what happens to their card is up how I feel at some point in time.
 In the past couple of weeks on two separate occasions I have received cards for 4 other stations in addition to the card that I requested. I have received no answers to any emails so all eight cards have been more or less disposed of, at least they are no longer in my possession.
 John Bergman, KC5LK
>> From: "FireBrick" <[email protected]>
> Date: 2004年02月18日 Wed PM 05:52:36 EST
> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] QSLing Complaint (or Rant)
>> 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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