[Dx-qsl] IRC's

Wed Jan 25 08:33:35 EST 2006

Danny,
Most QSL managers have, at times, IRCs to sell.....and they'll be discounted from what you would pay at the post office. Now, they may be from Japan, Germany, or Korea, NOT the US generally, but they work just as wel.
Just a hint..hate to see you spending 1ドル.85 when you could be spending less....I sell mine for 1ドル.30 each, I think others are in the same general ballpark.
73
STeve KU9C
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Danny Douglas" <n7dc at vabb.com>
Date: 2006年1月25日 01:25:34 -0500
>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
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