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

Mon Jan 31 17:51:09 EST 2005

Thanks, I'm a low volume QSL sender myself, I get maybe 100 requests 
from my trips to the Philippines for the CQWWDX and/or ARRL 10 mtr and 
I also rubber stamp my return address on SAE/SASE. But I guess there 
is a big difference between low volume guys like us and the big timer 
guys who might do 100 cards at one session.
I did receive one back marked, "Moved no forwarding address", although 
it was only 3 months from the time he mailed it and one month from 
when I returned from DU land. I looked him up on QRZ.com & the RAC CD 
 and the address on his SASE was correct. I put the original SASE 
with the PO rubber stamped Return to Sender in a larger envelope and 
mailed it again and it got to him OK the second time. The USPS 
somehow screwed up and thought he had moved. He sent me an email 
thanking me and did not know why the PO had returned it to me.
I have gotten QSL's, mostly in what is left of the envelopes the buros 
use to send me cards, in the little plastic envelopes the USPS uses 
for damaged mail. Sometimes the buro envelope came in the USPS 
plastic envelope empty of any QSL cards. Bummer.........
Tnks for your input & 73
Patrick STODDARD wrote:
> Hi Alan!
>> I read your question on the list over this weekend:
>>>>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.
>>> Some send me envelopes with their addresses on them, some put *my* 
> address on there, but most leave it blank. Unless a return address
> is already on there, I have an ink stamp with my address that goes 
> on all my outgoing mail. 
>> Even with that address on the envelope, there is still no 100% guarantee
> that the envelope will make it to you without running into problems in
> the postal system. With that in mind, I've never received anything back
> from the post office I mailed out, where I put my address on the SAE/SASEs
> sent by other hams to me. 
>> Just my 0ドル.02.... 73!
>>> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - Glendale AZ
> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
>>>>
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