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[SM5DJZ Jan/John]

Interesting notes.
Almost everywhere nowadays one US-dollar is not enough for covering return 
postage. In Sweden the cost for one letter up to 20g is 10 SEK (Swedish 
kronor) and one US-dollar is now eqv. to abt 7,20SEK.
This 10SEK-postage is valid for everywhere outside our own border. Mail to 
Scandinavia is just as much as to Australia. And we only have 
AirMail-Prioritare, No B-Economy (unless special agreement with our 
post-office)

Regarding mail from our national QSL-bureau, we have 2 options.
A/   2-kilo prepaid padded jiffy-bag.
B/   10-kilo prepaid parcel.

This covers almost 95% of all our shipment. Others are regular envelopes 
for weights below 2 kilos.
Last year we shipped some 700-kilos of cards out of SM

As Nenad mentions, the drop in outgoing cards can also be seen here in Sweden.
There is almost 15% less cards in 2003 that have been shipped out from our 
bureau.
Just as a notice.

Let's keep our Bureau-system working and give newcomers in ham-community a 
decent way of exchanging those sought-after QSL-cards in stead of all 
these  "ONLY DIRECT" and Dollar-IRC-syndroms of today.

73's and after all: A Happy new Year 2004
de SM5DJZ John
QSL-manager Outging Bureau of S.S.A.

Jan Hallenberg
Vassunda Andersberg
SE-741 91 Knivsta
SWEDEN

+46 18 38 13 99