[Dx-qsl] When to use IRCs

Mon May 15 17:49:18 EDT 2006

Ron,
Paying a service before the service is rendered means financing the 
renderer. It costs money. We have pre-financed the postal services, they 
should only be happy for that.
73,
Vladimir VE3IAE
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>I strongly suspect that one of the reasons the expiration date was put on 
>the "new" IRC's was because so many amateurs, like all of us, sell & 
>re-sell them to each other rather than exchange them for stamps.
>> Just think, at one time an IRC that only cost US$.50 is now "worth" the 
> same as one that costs US1ドル.85. Worse (to them), one that was bought for 
> US$.50 can now be redeemed for an $.85 air mail stamp!
>> Somewhere, some bookeeper must have started noticing that so many IRC's 
> were floating out on the "grey" market & never redeemed, and that got 
> brought to the attention of some bureaucrat, and before you know it...
>> I just had a thought. In the state of Pennsylvania, by law, gift 
> certificates can not have an expiration date. They are good indefinitely. 
> Now, suppose you considered an IRC the same as a gift certificate... yeah, 
> I know, federal statutes would supersede, but it was a thought...
>> 73
>>> From: Kz2i at aol.com
> Date: Mon May 15 15:42:30 CDT 2006
> To: dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] When to use IRCs
>>> yep, no argument from me on that. but i (and i assume a lot of the
> aforementioned dorks) buy their ircs from managers.
>> and if i buy an irc from a post office after July 1, i SHOULD be getting 
> the
> new version. right?
>> so the only danger should be from dorks buying from a post office before
> July 1 and using them realllly late in the year (5 to 6 months later). 
> or from
> a manager that is still trying to squeeze the best return out of their
> on-hand supply.
>> it's up to all of us to educate the less-knowledgeable. W3UR has a good
> article in his column in the June 2006 QST about ircs. Hopefully, other 
> other
> international organizations will pick up the ball too. and maybe a 
> mention
> on the various reflectors and clusters wouldn't be out of order. i see 
> more
> newbie dxers using them every day.
>> hmm, i know it's extra work, but an additional stuffer NOW from managers
> might help avoid end-of-year problems (steve, bob, joe and a whole mess 
> of guys
> are muttering at me right now). maybe a subtle reminder that the ircs 
> the
> guy just sent won't be valid after 12/31/06, etc etc.
>> Maybe the new ones won't have an expiration date and we won't have to 
> worry
> about this next time (yeah, right). well, that's enough of my 2 cents (or
> one old style irc) for now. let's go work some dx!
>>> 73 de Steve, KZ2I
> Charlotte, NC
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