[Dx-qsl] Several IRCs

Sat Aug 5 04:50:02 EDT 2006

It's fortunate that we do have surface mail still available from the UK, 
though I'm not convinced how reliable it is.
For example, only this morning I received QSL requests from a Japanese 
station for two QSOs with 9M0C and nine QSOs with D68C. That amounts to 
four, four sided cards weighing in excess of 40 grammes. He only 
enclosed two IRCs, which is insufficient to cover the airmail postage 
for that weight. It is only just sufficient to cover the surface mail, 
"printed paper" rate charge.
Had the surface mail option not been available, I would have had no 
option but to return one of his D68C cards via airmail and the rest via 
the bureau - and I'm beginning to suspect that the bureau system is even 
less reliable than surface mail!
Who would be a QSL manager!
73
In message <001001c6b864$d25f5020$d2adfc50 at IBM0480DFABDDB>, Osten B 
Magnusson <sm5dqc at areteadsl.se> writes
>>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
>>>>>>>>>&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
>>>Mitchell) but also true about QSL.NET if more users don't open their 
>>>wallets and help financially. Please contribute TODAY
>>>!!
>>>> -- 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
>> Mitchell) but also true about QSL.NET if more users don't open their 
>>wallets and help financially. Please contribute TODAY
>> !!
>
-- 
Phil Whitchurch
G3SWH
Work is the curse of the drinking classes!