[Dx-qsl] Peter One

[rayfri]

And my point is this ....  if the expense is too much to voluntarily 
foot .. then DONT DO IT.
Or, if someone is going to demand some sort of compensation, then DONT 
berate those who say they dont want to "purchase the goods"...
I dont denigrate someone who drinks water from a faucet instead of 
buying a six pack of Coke from my store.
HI HI.


Steven Wheatley KU9C wrote:

>A reminder on bureau cards.....someone pays the bill.  A recent calculation I did for some of the guys I manage, is that a 1000 cards cost something on the order of 7 cents each to mail via the bureau (card costs, label costs, and mailing costs).  And this is not using the ARRL bureau.   If that were the case, the cost would be something on the order of 10 cents each.  That's JUST the outgoing, not adding in the cost of the cards that come IN to me from the bureau.
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>For the 'for what it's worth' dept.
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>From: "Stuart Santelmann KC1F" <kc1f at adelphia.net>
>Date:  Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:56:58 -0000
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>>>You know ... it USED to be an informal rule in the hobby (and I'm going
>>>to be dating myself with this one ... but I admit I have been in this
>>>hobby since the early 60s)...  that "The final courtesy of a QSO is a
>>>QSL"...      We didnt used to "charge" someone else
>>>for our card ...  not even an SASE was requested most of the time.   I
>>>sent my card and requested one and got one back.
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>>I've been DXing and QSLing for 36 years but recently ran into a first time
>>ever QSLing event for me - a ham in an Eastern European country who had been
>>DXpeditioning to a semi-rare African country got my bureau request, but took
>>the time to look up my email address on the internet and send me an email to
>>remind me of his QSL policy listed on qrz.com - $ for a card.  So he
>>RECEIVES cards via the bureau but won't respond in kind - that's a new one
>>on me.  I didn't need it for a band mode but thought his card might be nice
>>to look at - it is, but I'll be content with looking at it on his qrz.com
>>page...
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>>   Stu        KC1F
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