[Dx-qsl] IRC's

Wed Jan 25 02:10:24 EST 2006

> It seems that if USA hams are paying more than twice what the return 
> value is
I bet it is the same in EVERY country. I almost sure that the price of IRC 
that post office pays to whoever sells them is more than price of air mail 
letter from any country origin to any country destination.
Otherwise that would be bloody good investment: buy IRC in US at $.84 USD 
each and exchange them in ZL for 1ドル.38 USD worth of stamps (air mail from 
ZL is 2ドル.00 NZD or about 1ドル.38 USD), then make a deal with any NZ company 
that sends lots of mail and sell stamps to them at discount price... New 
Zealand Post would go broke in no time.
Regards & 73!
Andrei, de ZL1TM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Santelmann KC1F" <kc1f at adelphia.net>
To: <lists at wd9ewk.net>; <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 12:27 p.m.
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] IRC's
> IRCs are now US$ 1.85 and may be redeemed
> at 84 US cents per IRC) and have that with you.

Speaking of which, anyone know why there's such a big difference between
these two prices ? I can understand a little markup for the postal clerk's
time, but 220 % ? A member of my contesting club is a postmaster and tried
to explain it to me - something about making the $ come out even with all
the UPU member countries. It seems that if USA hams are paying more than
twice what the return value is, there must be some other UPU countries that
are getting the benefit, but maybe I have it all wrong. Maybe USA postal
rates are relatively cheaper than other countries, so it takes more USA $ to
get the same postal service overseas ?
 Stu KC1F
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