[Dxbase] Mail Drops

Mon Dec 14 16:12:52 EST 2009

My experience has been that a lot of the DX stations that have "mail 
drops" in the US use them both ways. I have sent quite a few QSL cards 
to "mail drops" with green stamps, only to have the cards returned to me 
with a US stamp. Obviously, not all ops are ethical. 
I have purchased foreign stamps from Bill Plum too. At the risk of 
raising the ire of my Canadian friends, I would guess that my return 
rate, when sending cards to Canadian stations with their postage on the 
return envelope, is about 50%, worse than Mexico! That being said, it 
seems that the return rate from US stations using an SASE is only a 
little better. 
Caveat: Most of my QSLing these days involves six meter cards, etc. I 
generally have pretty good luck with HF DX stations on the other bands. 
Must be something about six!!!!!
Regards,
Steve, N4JQQ
Dave ve3wej wrote:
> there are several carribean stations I have worked that use a mail drop in
> florida, and they state that.
>> these are used for receiving the mail only, envelopes are mailed from the dx
> country, but no cash/irc's etc arrive at that country and get stolen....
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <n8dc-8 at comcast.net>
> To: <Dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 7:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Mail Drops
>>>>> Mail Drop ?
>> You got me . Ive never hear of this ? Where did you get this information?
>> If I need a card ill send direct with a couple bucks especially if its a
>> new one but im not sending my money to everyone that wants some of it
>> :)...
>> Dave N8DC
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jim WA9YSD" <wa9ysd at yahoo.com>
>> To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
>> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 6:44:05 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> 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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