[Dx-qsl] IRC's

Wed Jan 25 01:25:34 EST 2006

I am trying to remember, but its been too long ago, just what we paid for an
IRC back in the 50s-60s, when we only spent .03 or .06( cents) for a local
stamp, but believe it was a few pennies above airmail postage. Then, we did
have airmail postage, plus surface postage to foreign soils. Sometime in
the late 60s ( I think) the US Post Office (or congress) decided there would
be no further airmail stamps sold in the USA, because: "ALL MAIL WILL NOW
GO BY AIR, AND GET THERE OVERNIGHT." Fat chance! Now, in order to insure
that the mail "gets there overnight" we have to send it at a very special
rate of about 13ドル.00, and that's just within the USA During my school days,
a 3 cent stamp was sufficient for any stateside mail. Now, the stamps go up
almost yearly, at about 3 cents each time.
I used to be able to buy an IRC at my little local post office. Now, the
clerks hardly know what they look like, if they know they exist at all. I
have to drive past 2 post offices, in order to get to a larger one that
"occasionally" has a few IRCs on hand. Consequently, in the past 21 years I
have bought only a handful of IRCs, usually using a green stamp instead.
But, with so much theft of worthless greenback, cards don't get to their
intended recipients, so its back to the IRCs. Besides, one IRC is still
cheaper than 2 dollars. And, no matter what DX amateurs have said, the
internatnional rule still says one IRC is worth postage to mail a letter
from them to us. They need to stand up for their (our) rights and push
back.
Danny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrey Teterukov" <eu7sa at inbox.ru>
Cc: <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:59 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [Dx-qsl] IRC's
> The same situation here we are paying for one IRC more than twice what
> airmail postage cost to any country.
>> 73, Andy
> EU7SA
>> >> IRCs are now US$ 1.85 and may be redeemed
> >> at 84 US cents per IRC) and have that with you.
>> SSK> Speaking of which, anyone know why there's such a big difference
between
> SSK> these two prices ? I can understand a little markup for the postal
clerk's
> SSK> time, but 220 % ? A member of my contesting club is a postmaster and
tried
> SSK> to explain it to me - something about making the $ come out even with
all
> SSK> the UPU member countries. It seems that if USA hams are paying more
than
> SSK> twice what the return value is, there must be some other UPU
countries that
> SSK> are getting the benefit, but maybe I have it all wrong. Maybe USA
postal
> SSK> rates are relatively cheaper than other countries, so it takes more
USA $ to
> SSK> get the same postal service overseas ?
>> SSK> Stu KC1F
>>>> SSK> &quot;Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what
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> SSK> Mitchell) but also true about QSL.NET if more users don't open
> SSK> their wallets and help financially. Please contribute TODAY !!
>>> &quot;Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've
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