[Dx-qsl] NEW UK POSTAL RATES

Wed Feb 21 21:32:39 EST 2007

In all seriousness...
I don't know if this is still the case, but I do recall that several years
ago, some Western EU managers (primarily German) used to mail their return
cards from Yugoslavia/Serbia, Romainia, and other Eastern EU countries.
When I asked, I was told that the cost differential in air mail postage to
North America between their home countries and the countries they mailed
from was more than enough to cover the costs for them to travel round-trip
to mail the cards! (Of course, for all I know, they were making the trip on
business or whatever anyway)
So I guess if the cost differential today is high enough, and there are
sufficient cards to cover the costs and warrant the trip, this may still be
the case today!
It's either that, or bring out The Holy Hand Grenade...
73
-----Original Message-----
From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Graham Ridgeway
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:26 PM
To: Laurent Ferracci; dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] NEW UK POSTAL RATES
On 2007年2月20日 19:45:10 +0100, Laurent Ferracci
<l.ferracci at comeca-group.com> wrote:
>Graham Ridgeway a écrit :
>>> And exactly HOW do we get to France to post them ?
>> Next slightly silly question please !
>>Graham,
>>I don't know if it is me who's supposed to be silly (thanks) but i don't
>feel that in our era of increasing postal rates, finding more economical
>solutions for us all is a nonsense.

Agreed, and apologies.
>- Doing what i suggest mustn't be so difficult to do because i've
>already received such postings from a british QSL manager.

I would be very interested to know who this Manager is/was.
>- When you have more than "a few" cards to send, i guess that the added
>cost of a parcel shipment to France could be easily paid by the savings
>on stamps (at 0,1 € / QSL..) So you could imagine to have a stock of
>french stamps, use them, then send the whole pack of french-stamped QSLs
>to someone in France who would just open it and give the cards to his
>local post.

This is true.
>- I could also suggest others to prefer a french manager rather than one
>in a "expensive" one. But i won't. In fact, there may be some better
>compromise between postal rates & postal quality than France, i haven't
>done any comparative study, this is just a thought in a place where
>we're supposed to exchange ideas and informations, aren't we ?

Agreed again.
What I will ask is whether the French Buro has any restrictions on
card handling - such as Members Only
73 Graham M5AAV
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