[Dx-qsl] RE: IRC's

[Robert G. Schaffrath]

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> And to take that argument a bit further, why would anyone exchange an 
> IRC for an 84 cent stamp at the post office when you can sell them to 
> fellow hams for $1.30 or so?
For the old style IRC's this certainly made no sense.  I am kind of 
sorry that I sent out my last old style IRC that I purchased for $1.05 
back in 2000, just before the rates went up.  Now the big problem is all 
of these new style IRC's that will expire at the end of the year.  
Either there is going to be a major run on the worlds' post offices at 
the end of the year as hams and QSL managers everywhere run to exchange 
their stash for whatever they can get or they will have a bunch of 
worthless paper on January 1, 2007.  So exchanging them now for an $.84 
stamp may very well make sense.  At this point if I need an IRC I will 
probably go to the PO and buy them one at a time as I probably will not 
need more than two or three before the end of the year.  I do not want 
to get stuck with a pile of 20 from a manager that I wind up having to 
exchange at the end of the year.

I wish the UPU would drop the expiration of IRC's and go back to the way 
it was. 

Robert, N2JTX