[Dx-qsl] RE: IRC's

Wed Jan 25 15:55:50 EST 2006

Bob, and all...
First, I believe most managers will sell a few ircs...maybe for 1.30 plus a 39 cent stamp. While it may be 'just as easy' to go to a post office, if your post office doesn't normally handle IRCs, you may find they give you a blank stare!
I don't sell the old ones, but I don't exchange them at the USPS...there are other ways to get rid of them that generates a bit more than 84 cents. Not good for a person with a few..but if you hvae several hundred, worth while.
I suspect I'll continue selling them till the new ones come out, then play it day to day. Obviously the new ones will make the old ones less worth while...but even at the end of 2006, I know of ways to get more than 84 cents.
I do expect to be spending the last day or two of 2006 with what I have left. I suspect you'll see folks, near the end of the year...post 'cut off dates'...as it apears the post office has a 12/31/06 'hard cut off' date for redemtion.
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Robert G. Schaffrath" <robert at schaffrath.net>
Date: 2006年1月25日 12:10:12 -0500
>Bob Nielsen wrote:
>> And to take that argument a bit further, why would anyone exchange an 
>> IRC for an 84 cent stamp at the post office when you can sell them to 
>> fellow hams for 1ドル.30 or so?>For the old style IRC's this certainly made no sense. I am kind of 
>sorry that I sent out my last old style IRC that I purchased for 1ドル.05 
>back in 2000, just before the rates went up. Now the big problem is all 
>of these new style IRC's that will expire at the end of the year. 
>Either there is going to be a major run on the worlds' post offices at 
>the end of the year as hams and QSL managers everywhere run to exchange 
>their stash for whatever they can get or they will have a bunch of 
>worthless paper on January 1, 2007. So exchanging them now for an $.84 
>stamp may very well make sense. At this point if I need an IRC I will 
>probably go to the PO and buy them one at a time as I probably will not 
>need more than two or three before the end of the year. I do not want 
>to get stuck with a pile of 20 from a manager that I wind up having to 
>exchange at the end of the year.
>>I wish the UPU would drop the expiration of IRC's and go back to the way 
>it was. 
>>Robert, N2JTX
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