[Dx-qsl] Free Buro's

Thu Sep 30 13:37:25 EDT 2004

Steve,
Just a couple add-ons to your valuable recommendations:
1. Do not work what you do not need.
2. Heavy QSL-ers will continue their all-in-the-log policies
 no matter how much surcharge QSL bureau adds on.
3. For DX QSL bureaus with large volume of cards, mail your
 own package directly to DX QSL bureau.
4. In such case do not be shy to use surface mail. It is faster than you
think,
 unless you or the bureau are in some parts of the world with unreliable
 postal service.
73 Nenad VE3EXY
Steven Wheatley KU9C wrote:
> Now that the 'pseudo-free' QSL bureaus become known, perhaps the more
interesting question to folks like me that see a ton of cards, is how many
of the members of the organizations with 'free bureaus' use them to mail a
QSL for
> -every qso
> -almost every qso
> -every qso but the 'easy countries'
> -just the ones I need.
>> My guess, based on what I see, is the cost of the bureau has a lot to do
with how indiscriminately folks use the bureau. A free bureau with the
believe that 'the final courtesy of a QSO is a QSL'.....creates a lot of
cardboard going thru the system.
>> Beating a dead horse, I know, but please...please...do not send a QSL via
the bureau just because it doesn't cost much. Refer to my prior
emails.....it costs the receiving party, who may well not need your QSL, a
bit to get it, and it all adds up.
>> QSL the ones you need......and if you need them quickly, the bureau may
not be the best choice. AND, with LOTW, etc, think about whether you need
to tax the bureau system at all
>> 73
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