[Dx-qsl] USPS Considering Stopping Sales of IRCs

Tue Nov 6 11:24:28 EST 2012

If the U.S. goes ahead with dropping IRCs, you can bet most other nations
will ultimately join them in doing so. Perhaps this will be the final issue
of the coupons? Who knows, but I suspect this will change the dynamics of
paper QSLing.
What I'd love to see personally is a UPU-issued international stamp.
Jurisdictions can sell them for whatever they want (just as they currently
do for IRCs), but they're usable world-wide, from any IARU member country.
Obviously LoTW and the combination of Club Log+OQRS+PayPal will increase in
use, and I'm comfortable with that.
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Regards,
Peter Dougherty, W2IRT
www.facebook.com/W2IRT
-----Original Message-----
From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Wes Quinn
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:39 AM
To: dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] USPS Considering Stopping Sales of IRCs
I wish the DX would use PayPal, but I mailed out almost 300 QSLs about 18
months ago and only 3 people used PayPal.
And only the big dxpeds use OQRS.  Most DX that I've worked the past 3 years
don't use any of the latest technology to exchange money to receive a card.
 We can only hope more will use it in the future and that they will use
LoTW.
Thanks Jim, for sharing the info on IRCs in the US.
And I'm A BIG DX chaser!  :-)  So how do we get more people to use PayPal,
OQRS and LoTW?
73 de k4Wes
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:20:46 -0000
> From: "Phil Whitchurch" <phil at g3swh.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] USPS Considering Stopping Sales of IRCs
> To: <kenshep at one.net>,    <DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID: <20121106072020.A2968128300 at mdfmta009.tch.inty.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Hi Ken
> 
> Royal Mail stopped selling them some time ago.  Their reasoning is at
> www.g3swh.org.uk/irc.html
> 
> In these days of OQRS and PayPal, IRCs are becoming increasingly
redundant.
> Sending US 2ドル instead of an IRC is a similar cost to you and about 1000%
> more acceptable to the DX station or his manager.
> 
> 73 for now
> 
> Phil
> G3SWH
> 

> 
> > On 11/5/2012 3:16 PM, James Skjervem wrote:
> > I saw this in my stamp collecting related news today - if it's been
reported
> > before, I apologize.
> >
> > http://editions.amospublishing.com/LINN/Default.aspx?d=20121119&pagenum=
1&f=0
> >
> > 73 Jim KS7S
>
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