[Dx-qsl] IRC's

Wed Jan 25 06:51:47 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. 

In the late '60s, IRCs sold for 0ドル.15 at the post office. But in those 
days a single IRC was only good for a reply by surface mail. For 
airmail, you had to send more than one. There was a chart in the front 
of the Callbook which said how many IRCs were needed for an airmail 
reply from each country. Usually it was 2 or 3, but a few countries were 
as high as 7. At that time the overseas airmail varied by destination. 
It was 0ドル.10 to South America, 0ドル.15 to Europe, and 0ドル.25 to Asia, 
Africa, and the Pacific.
Even in those days, IRCs were being re-cycled by QSL managers. I kept 
one that was stamped in 1956 at which time they were selling for 0ドル.13 
at the post office.
73,
John, K9MM