[Dx-qsl] Re: Return Postage

[Peter Dougherty]

At 13:00 24-02-05, John Warren wrote:

>Hans DK9KX wrote:
>
>>the todays rate for one american dollar is 0.756956 euro cent.
>Today your two greenstamps doesn't cover the postage of Euro 1.55.
>
>Good point Hans. The dollar keeps dropping vs the Euro, so I'll send $3 
>with QSLs to Germany. We have $2 bills in the States, so I will use $2 + 
>$1 to keep the weight the same. Still a lot simpler than IRCs or mint stamps!

I'll use mint stamps every time. Since there are a great many DL managers 
and DL stations travelling these days, I usually keep somewhere around 10 
sets of 1,55 euro German postage at any time. Cheaper than $3, that's for 
darned sure, and once you have a good stock of stamps, it's a lot easier 
than trying to get $2 bills from local banks. I even had one S5 station 
SEND IT BACK TO ME as not being a real bill !! Laughed my ass off at that one!!

>Sure makes the USPO worldwide airmail rate of 80c look like a bargain!

I believe the DL rate is the highest in the world.




- pjd

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