[Dx-qsl] IARU Leadership re QSL Bureaus

Fri Sep 14 01:07:11 EDT 2018

Thanks to Yutaka, here is the text of the IARU Region 1 item on QSL Bureaus:
5.4.1 IARU QSL Policy
IARU Resolution 85-9 was discussed. There is evidence that for a
significant decline in paper cards
sent via Bureau. A number of bureaux have closed. The current Resolution is
not followed by a
number of Member Societies. IARU Region 1 will consider submitting a
proposal to the AC to change
the position. There are three options: do nothing, withdraw the resolution
or make changes in the
wording to reflect the appropriate situation for the 21st Century. A paper
will be prepared for
subsequent consideration by the Region 1 EC assessing these three options
and a further discussion
will take place in a web-call prior to a submission to the AC. Action: PB2T
The suggestion was made to provide detailed information on delivery policy
of QSL bureaux. This will
be reviewed with the IS.
The IARU Resolution 85-9 reads as follows:
concerning QSL bureaus
The IARU Administrative Council, Auckland, November 1985,
recognizing
that the exchanging of QSL cards is a "final courtesy" in an Amateur Radio
communication,
recognizing
that the cost of exchanging cards between
individual amateur stations is prohibitive
in most cases, unless an efficient international bureau system in
operation,
recognizing
that an amateur who sends a card via the bureau
usually has no way of knowing
whether the amateur to whom it is addressed is a member of his national
IARU society, and
recognizing
that most IARU member-societies operate incoming
bureau systems that are
available to members and non-members alike, but that some are unable, for
good and sufficient
reason, to provide service to non-members even it the expenses of doing so
are fully
reimbursed,
resolves
that member-societies are strongly encouraged,
whenever possible, to provide
incoming QSL bureaus service to non-members within
their operating territory, if such
non-members agree to pay the full cost of this
service; and if they are not already doing so, to
explore appropriate means and methods for delivering QSL cards to
non-members, and
further resolves
that member-societies shall not forward QSL Cards
to bureaus operated by
non-members of IARU, if there is an IARU member-society in the country
concerned that
forwards cards to non-members who agree to pay the
full cost of this service.
73, Fred Laun, K3ZO