[Dx-qsl] Incoming Bueau

[Floyd Gerald]

Hi Steve,
NO !!! Bureau Manager OR SORTER!! gets PAID ONE PENNY BY THE ARRL.. They are
ALL UN Paid Volunteers!


Bravo for the Bureau workers..
73-
Floyd, N5FG
DX IS !
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----- Original Message -----
From: <strutledge@oii.net>
To: <n4tj@sc.rr.com>; <dx-qsl@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 8:51 PM
Subject: RE: [Dx-qsl] Incoming Bueau


> Tom, that is a hell of a story.  I have a question for you or anyone out
> there who knows?  Does an incoming bureau person get paid by the ARRL?
Why
> would the ARRL not take action, especially in a case as egregious as this
> one?
>
> I AM very happy to say that my bureau person, N4JJ, does a GREAT job and I
> am greatful he is willing to do the job.  I have never had a complaint
> about the incoming or outgoing bureau.
>
> Steve, N4JQQ
>
> Original Message:
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> Wrom: EUQZAAFXISHJEXXIMQZUIVOTQN
> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 21:10:00 -0000
> To: dx-qsl@mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Dx-qsl] Incoming Bueau
>
>
> Let's look back a few years to when a guy in Melbourne Fla had the W4
bureau
> in the late 60s, the whole thing, not just a letter.
>
> Everybody went almost 6 years without any cards. Guys in the Melbourne
area
> said that they would go over to help him, and he would peep out the window
> but not open the door. Neighbors also resported that they would often see
a
> mailbag full of stuff delivered, and several days later, they would see it
> taken it out to the incinerator in the backyard.
>
> There finally was almost an insurrection in the 4th district and when the
> league finally took it from him, the Stirling Park club reported that they
> got over 300,000 cards. I alone got hundreds of cards, some of them over 9
> years old.
>
> What really miffed me was that our complaints to the league went unheeded
> for years with numerous excuses out of Newington, and when they finally
let
> him go, there was an entire column in QST praising the guy for the fine
job
> he had done. I think there was a certificate too.
>
> I know that the 1967 Andamans operation QSLed via the
> buro because I know several who got them. I guess my card is in that
> incinerator. To be honest, I am bitter.
>
> Sometimes it is best to be wary of your bureau. The Mecklenberg ARC guys
do
> a good job, but the T processer has been a bit slow the past few years,
but
> I know I"m eventually gonna get my stuff. No real problem there.
>
> Everybody have a happy new year.
>
> Tom
>
> N4TJ
>
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