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

Sun Jan 30 14:17:26 EST 2005

This is a very good idea. I will start doing it myself from now on. 
Thanks for the input from one who knows. I don't blame you for not 
wanting to print up 100's of your own labels or having to take extra 
time applying them.
I go to the Philippines every two yrs or so for the CQWWDX and/or the 
ARRL 10 mtr contests and get many QSL requests via my home call. I 
always stick a sticker with my return address on the other guys 
SASE/SAE and don't see much of a problem doing so, but I am only doing 
a couple of hundred over a couple of months compared to your 1000's of 
cards every month.
I mentioned the thing about return addresses as a person in CA made a 
combined mailing for the XF1H DXpedition. Many of us never got our 
cards that we sent direct to XF1H so he set up a group mailing by 
registered mail and the cards went to him, then he remailed them to 
everyone who had sent him money and a SASE. Problem is my card came 
to me in a USPS plastic see through envelope because the envelope was 
damaged in the mail processing through no fault of the person sending 
it to me. My address could still be seen so the USPS knew where to 
send it. But had I used a label on my envelope instead of a rubber 
stamp, or had my address been completely unreadable there was no way 
it would have been returned to the sender as there was no return 
address on the envelope. I never thought of it much before but that 
showed me how close I'd come to missing the XF1H card that would have 
gone to the dead letter file. For what ever reason I get tons of 
return address labels in the mail every month. Some I just throw away, 
others I keep. I once received some from the MS fund for kids asking 
for a donation that I sent 10ドル.00. They must have given other 
charities my name because now I get them all the time from every other 
charity. I was thinking maybe others also get these labels but see I 
am wrong.
73/DX
Steven Wheatley KU9C wrote:
 > Alan,
 >
 > I can give you my view of this. I don't do it because it is yet 
another step in the process, and an unnecessary one at the moment (in 
that the Post Office doesn't mandate it to take the mail...they do on 
packages, for example).
 > Think of mailing several hundred pieces of mail, and think of how 
long it takes to mark these. Call me lazy, but I'd prefer to do a few 
more QSL cards with the time. For QSL managers, unpaid volunteers, we 
have so much time to devote to the hobby...for me, I prefer to work 
the pile of cards.
 >
 > My recommendation, and I've suggested this earlier....is to put the 
return address on the envelope you mail to me. Put mine, put yours, 
but if you want one, put something there before sending it. I'm not 
sure what happens if the mail goes astray, but without a 'return 
address'...it may go to dead letter.
 >
 > 73
 > Steve KU9C
 >
 > ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
 > From: Alan Zack <k7acz at cox.net>
 > Date: 2005年1月30日 00:12:57 -0800
 >
 >
 >> 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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