[Dx-qsl] Re: DX-QSL digest NB1B DENNIS

Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:34:42 -0700

Dennis:
Thanks for taking the time to tell us about the mysteries of the USPS! I
appreciate it and I am sure the other die hard DX QSLers do too! Next time
you get to Denver I would like to treat  you to an adult beverage!
73,
Don  W�DM
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Subject: DX-QSL digest, Vol 1 #180 - 8 msgs


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>    1. Re: Fw: [CQ-Contest] new ircs?? old ones to expire? ([email protected])
>    2. Re: Fw: [CQ-Contest] new ircs?? old ones to expire? (Ron Notarius
WN3VAW)
>    3. IRC Expiration (NB1B)
>    4. UK8AEA (Maurice ON4BAM)
>    5. Re: UK8AEA (Rolf Rahne)
>    6. Re: spare IRC's (Ed Swiderski)
>    7. Re: C21XU (UA1AKE/Inform TV)
>    8. Re: UK8AEA (UA1AKE/Inform TV)
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> Message: 1
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:45:32 EST
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Fw: [CQ-Contest] new ircs?? old ones to expire?
> To: [email protected]
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Have them take a look at the USPS IMM (international mail manual)
(usps.com)
> section 372....The first Paragraph states...."The period of exchange of
IRC's
> issued by the UPU on or after Jan 1 1975 is UNLIMITED.
>
> However this may change here in the US of A and other countries will
probably
> make their own rules(some already have).....time will tell!
>
> Mike W2GR
>
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> Message: 2
> From: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Fw: [CQ-Contest] new ircs?? old ones to expire?
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:48:58 -0500
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Thanks, but I get in enough trouble over here!
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
> "The use of excessive violence in the apprehension of the Blues
Brothers...
> ...has been approved"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Allan & Bridget <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 1:22 AM
> Subject: [Dx-qsl] Fw: [CQ-Contest] new ircs?? old ones to expire?
>
>
> Well, can you tell I haven't been paying attention?  The guys on the CQ
> Contest reflector are puzzled over this one (WN3VAW, where are you?).<g>
If
> someone would send the correct answer to WW3S OR the reflector itself I'd
> appreciate it...  Two or three others have also chimed in saying that they
> would like an answer as well, and now I've been caught daydreaming (and
have
> just cleaned out the "deleted messages" folder).
>
> Thanks!
> Bridget, KS4YT
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jamie WW3S" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] new ircs?? old ones to expire?
>
>
> > Well, in the mail today was a card from a JA for a qso in last weekends
> > BARTG and include was a new style IRC!! They are as big as a qsl card
> > themselves and clearly stated on the back (in about 30 different
> languages)
> > is the expiration date, 31-Dec-2006. So these new ones clearly will
expire
> > but after checking again on the older ones I have, I can find no
> expiration
> > date. I'd check at the local post office but every time I bring one in,
it
> > takes the whole office just to figure out how to spell IRC. 73
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "N2TK" <[email protected]>
> > To: "'Jamie WW3S'" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:43 PM
> > Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] new ircs?? old ones to expire?
> >
> >
> > > Hi Jamie. If you get word on this, please let us all know.
> > > Tnx
> > > Tony
> > > N2TK
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jamie WW3S
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 10:22
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [CQ-Contest] new ircs?? old ones to expire?
> > >
> > > Excuse the interruption...I know its not directly contest related but:
> > >
> > > Hearing rumors that "old" IRCS will expire on June 30th...anyone else
> hear
> > > this? Can you convert the old ones to the new style?
> > >
> > > 73 Jamie WW3S
> > >
> > >
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> Message: 3
> From: "NB1B" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 05:32:14 -0500
> Subject: [Dx-qsl] IRC Expiration
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Guys
>
> I am a Postmaster with the USPS.  My comments here are based upon the
> information I have been given.  Redeeming IRCs and selling postage is an
> important aspect of my job.
>
> As of today, there has been NO literature disseminated on a foreign
postage
> rate increase in June.  There has been NO information that the rate of
> redemption for IRCs will be changing, or that current IRCs will not be
> accepted for exchange after some unspecified date in the future.
>
> Foreign postage rates are set by a posting in the Federal Register; that
has
> to appear so many days (I think it is 60) before the rates can be changed.
> If you are looking for information about it, that is the place to look.
> There are also several sources, all internal, that get advance information
> on the rates- as of last Friday, they had heard nothing on either a
Foreign
> postage rate increase or a change in IRC redemption rates.
>
> Does that mean it won't happen?  No.  It just means that, as of last
Friday,
> there is no information available that says it will happen.  My
professional
> belief is that there will be a foreign postage increase this summer- maybe
> not coinciding with the domestic rate increase- and that, some time in the
> future, IRCs sold before some prior date (for example, 1995) won't be
> redeemable.  Why else would the new IRCs have an expiration date? The
> precedent is already set by not redeeming IRCs dated before 1975.
>
> When I find out anythng, I will post it to the list.  As of right now,
there
> is nothing to post.
>
> Dennis NB1B
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> From: "Maurice ON4BAM" <[email protected]>
> Organization: ON4BAM Ham Radio
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:44:06 +0100
> Subject: [Dx-qsl] UK8AEA
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anybody got QSL from UK8AEA?
>
> I found:
>
> PO Box 0
> 700000, Tashkent
> UZBEKISTAN
>
> But is PO box 0 a typo or is this correct?
>
> TNX
>
>
> bye, Maurice   ON4BAM / M0CIL  ALHS #357
> [email protected] or [email protected] http://www.qsl.net/on4bam
> on-line logs of KL7 * C6A * ZS * TF * OY and IOTA/Lighthouse
> operations
>
>
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> Message: 5
> From: "Rolf Rahne" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] UK8AEA
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:48:34 +0100
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Correkt !!
> 73 Rolf, DL6ZFG
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maurice ON4BAM" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 12:44 PM
> Subject: [Dx-qsl] UK8AEA
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anybody got QSL from UK8AEA?
> >
> > I found:
> >
> > PO Box 0
> > 700000, Tashkent
> > UZBEKISTAN
> >
> > But is PO box 0 a typo or is this correct?
> >
> > TNX
> >
> >
> > bye, Maurice   ON4BAM / M0CIL  ALHS #357
> > [email protected] or [email protected] http://www.qsl.net/on4bam
> > on-line logs of KL7 * C6A * ZS * TF * OY and IOTA/Lighthouse
> > operations
> >
> > Please help QSL.NET . Send your donation now.
> >
> > If you have already donated, thanks !
>
>
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> Message: 6
> From: "Ed Swiderski" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] spare IRC's
> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:03:10 -0500
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Hi Howard,
>
>     I sent one direct also at about the same time with a SASE of Laos
> stamps. Nothing yet here. I am going to send again only because I worked
> XW0X again for my last zone on 10m SSB. This time I'm going to use 2
IRC's.
> Also, I'm told NOT to put his name on the envelope. I did put his name on
> the 1st time. This one will go into the mail this week.
>
>      Have heard that the turnaround is fairly quick using 2 IRC's and no
> name. How quick? I don't know. Will try to keep the list notified.
>
> Ed KU4BP
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> To: [email protected]
> Organization: TRK Petersburg
> From: [email protected] (UA1AKE/Inform TV)
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:30:09 +0300 (MSK)
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] C21XU
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> >From: [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] C21XU
> >To: [email protected]
> >Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 14:52:17 EST
> >
> >Via PA3AXU
>
> His callsign now is ON4AXU in Belgium. Try this way.
>
> --
>   73 de Constantin Semyonov, UA1AKE.
>       [email protected]
>       [email protected]
>       http://www.qsl.net/ua1ake
>
>
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> Message: 8
> To: [email protected]
> Organization: TRK Petersburg
> From: [email protected] (UA1AKE/Inform TV)
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:38:56 +0300 (MSK)
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] UK8AEA
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> It's correct:
>
> Mikhail Zhirnov
> P.O.Box "0"
> 700000 Tashkent
> UZBEKISTAN
>
> >From: "Maurice ON4BAM" <[email protected]>
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Has anybody got QSL from UK8AEA?
> >
> >I found:
> >
> >PO Box 0
> >700000, Tashkent
> >UZBEKISTAN
> >
> >But is PO box 0 a typo or is this correct?
> >
> >TNX
> >
> >
> >bye, Maurice   ON4BAM / M0CIL  ALHS #357
> >[email protected] or [email protected] http://www.qsl.net/on4bam
>
> --
>   73 de Constantin Semyonov, UA1AKE.
>       [email protected]
>       [email protected]
>       http://www.qsl.net/ua1ake
>
>
>
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