[Dx-qsl] Return address on QSL's mailed

Sun Jan 30 03:12:57 EST 2005

I'm wondering if anyone has noticed a trend among some QSL mangers not 
to use a return address when sending a QSL back to you.
We send a QSL manager a SAE or SASE with our address stamped on it to 
get the QSL back to us. But I noticed most QSL managers don't stamp 
their return address on the envelope we provide. This is fine UNLESS 
for some reason our address can't be read because of being smudged or 
if using a label, the label gets torn off. then what happens? With 
no return address the envelope goes to the dead letter file and is 
lost forever. The person who sent the SASE/SAE doesn't get his card, 
and gets mad at the QSL mgr for not sending it, when he actually did 
send it.
If a QSL mgr didn't want to use his address as the return address then 
I suppose we could put our own address on the back flap of the 
envelope so it would get returned to us. This would be OK UNLESS 
someone moved and the forwarding order expired or for some other 
reason it could not be delivered (Flood, hurricane, house burned down, 
etc).
Anyway, I wonder what the QSL mgrs in the group have for suggestions 
on using or not using their return address on SAE/SASE they receive.
73
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