[Dx-qsl] Several IRCs

Sat Aug 5 03:57:37 EDT 2006

In Sweden 1 IRC covers postage for 20 grams to anywhere
in the world, priority mail, same as "air mail".
We no longer have economy mail - surface mail.
73/DX de Osten SM5DQC sm5dqc at areteadsl.se
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Whitchurch" <phil at g3swh.demon.co.uk>
To: "Vladimir V. Sidorov" <eu1sa at belsonet.net>
Cc: <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Several IRCs
> FWIW, in the UK one IRC will purchase postage for up to 20 grammes to a European destination and postage for up to 10
> grammes to a destination outside Europe.
>> From experience I know that a single, two sided card, plus envelope etc. weighs about 6 grammes. Four sided cards such as
> D68C plus an envelope weigh just over 10 grammes. Six sided cards such as 3Y0X plus an envelope weigh around 15 grammes.
>> Thus, 2 IRCs are necessary for a single D68C card to be sent outside Europe.
>> I make no comment about the organisers of any DX-pedition choosing to use four or six sided cards.
>> I believe that most postal administrations have a similar (although not identical) ranges of weights.
>> Hope this helps.
>> 73
>> In message <00b601c6b7df$b3192f40$7e01a8c0 at phub.net.cable.rogers.com>, Vladimir V. Sidorov <eu1sa at belsonet.net> writes
>>Gents,
>>>>The below by no means is not related to any particular statement in the
>>list.
>>>>In my very humble opinion an IRC covers a postage of a letter to any other
>>country in the World.
>>>>An IRC costs quite differently in different countries, but it serves its
>>purpose everywhere regardless currency exchange rates, etc.
>>>>Can anybody explain me in clear plain language why some people require more
>>than 1 IRC for a single postage?
>>>>Rather rhetoric, but... OK, you can consider it just steaming off.
>>>>73,
>>>>Vladimir VE3IAE
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>> -- 
> Phil Whitchurch
> G3SWH
>> Work is the curse of the drinking classes!
>>> &quot;Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got...till it's gone.&quot; from Big Yellow Taxi (Joni
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