[Dxbase] Mail Drops

Mon Dec 14 11:19:27 EST 2009

A mail drop is a safe mailing address (often in the US or a western European
country) that a person who lives in a country with known problems of mail
theft will use. Anyone who wants a card sends their request, an SASE and a
couple of dollars to the drop address. Every so often, someone picks up the
mail from the drop and personally delivers it to the guy in the foreign
country (or he picks it up when he's here, etc), thus bypassing his corrupt
postal officials' notice. He then uses your $$ to buy local stamps to send
your reply back to you directly from his country. Nothing nefarious
whatsoever! There are a couple of guys in Nicaragua who work this way, and
Frank, V51AS does something similar to a drop in Germnay (I think this is a
relative or friend back home in Frank's case). In both instances, the cards
usually get sent back from the foreign country.
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Regards,
Peter,
W2IRT
-----Original Message-----
From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Jim WA9YSD
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 6:44 AM
To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Dxbase] Mail Drops
This is new to me. Now I know why I have not been getting some of my QSL
cards cause I did not send them any green stamps to a USA mail drop.
What is this and what purpose do they serve, and why do some people do not
like them?
Stay on course, fight a good fight, and keep the faith. Jim K9TF/WA9YSD
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