[Dx-qsl] Re: Postage Stamps?

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:57:25 -0500

What I want to know is where you can get a tower for $2.00?  (Sorry,
couldn't resist!)  
;)

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Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Re: Postage Stamps?

To many of our fellow Ham Take that $2.00 and buy that new tower and you
never get the cards. Not all  but the people that do make it hard for
the rest that don't. I am willing to pay the postage to get a card for
DXCC. I not willing to buy a tower etc. for someone when I don't have
one.

73
Tony WB2JRI

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:18:17 -0600 John Warren <[email protected]> writes:
> >.....Argentina has an inflation rate of about 80 percent or so right
> now,
> >so prices keep going up, up, up...it might be worth it to check
> with
> >them about current postage rates before we send...
> >
> >  >I was told 1.25 would be good but it seems to have doubled.
> 
> I'm baffled.
> 
> Why do we struggle to figure out postage rates around the world
> (which - not surprisingly - we often get wrong), then go to great 
> trouble to buy currently valid stamps for each country (which we 
> also 
> often get wrong)? Why not just send $2 U.S.? Greenbacks seem to be 
> an 
> acceptable, low-inflation QSL currency worldwide, and have always 
> worked extremely well for me, even to countries which nominally are 
> not supposed to receive them. (I always hide the bills carefully 
> anyway).
> 
> What am I missing? Please explain.
> 
> BTW, I used the bureaus for all "easy" countries while I was
> building 
> up my score, and still do to respond to all QSLs received that way. 
> So only a modest number of my outgoing cards require $2 U.S. I have 
> never used stamps.
> 
> John, NT5C.
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