[Dx-qsl] Re: Stamps, Money and IRCs

[John Warren]

I'm baffled.

A significant proportion of the traffic on this reflector concerns 
figuring out and obtaining the correct foreign stamps, understanding 
the latest currency availability and changes, and trying to deduce 
the policy of each post office toward IRCs. Why do we torture 
ourselves like this?

Just use Green Stamps! They are one of the lowest denomination paper 
currencies in the developed world, hence are flexible - use one or 
two - and can be easily hidden in a letter. They are accepted 
(desired?) almost everywhere, and have become a MUCH more 
exchangeable worldwide currency than IRCs.

My overseas DX friends seem to find them highly convenient. They use 
some of the G/S received from the U.S. for their own QSLing, and cash 
the balance at almost any bank to cover their mailing costs.

I never use anything else, even to the few places where G/S are 
nominally illegal, and my return ratio most certainly hasn't suffered.

Am I missing something?

John, NT5C.