[Dx-qsl] IRC's revisited

Tue Jul 11 10:33:22 EDT 2006

It is, at least in my opinion, starting to become clearer regarding
'yellow' IRC's.
Today I received the following.
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Dear Mr. Ridgeway:
You should understand that currently the IRCs issued before 2002 are
exchangeable indefinitely according to the current UPU rules. However,
this kind of IRC cannot anymore exchangeable, in term of finances,
between the postal administrations since 30 June 2006. Therefore, it
means that some of them do not want anymore accept this coupon for
exchange.
The exchange of IRC (after the customer's exchange) between the postal
administrations is worked through a bilateral agreement and if this text
does not exist, the postal administrations lose money.
At the same time, we wonder why some people, 4 years later, have still
so many old coupons to exchange.
Regards
Claude Voirol
IRC and Philately Programme Assistant
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So, if USPS or Other Postal SErvices 'cannot' or 'will not' get rid of
them, to accept them means they lose money, so the end is decidedly
'nigh'.
I did not respond to his final question <smile>
Graham
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73 Graham, M5AAV