[Dx-qsl] Peter One

[Jerry Keller]

And don't forget the cost of chasing after the guys who don't send envelopes
to their Incoming BURO sorter. I have cards for close to 500 callsigns but
no envelopes... and I am only the Letter B sorter! I good bit of every card
sorters time is spent sending notices to those that have cards waiting but
no envelopes on file to mail them, and there's a good bit of expense
involved in those mailings and other similar tasks.
73, Jerry K3BZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Wheatley KU9C" <ku9c at ku9c.com>
To: "rayfri" <rayfri at highstream.net>; "Danny Douglas" <n7dc at vabb.com>; 
"Stuart Santelmann KC1F" <kc1f at adelphia.net>
Cc: <DX-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Peter One


>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.
>
> For the 'for what it's worth' dept.
>
> 73
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Stuart Santelmann KC1F" <kc1f at adelphia.net>
> Date:  Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:56:58 -0000
>
>>> 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.
>>
>>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...
>>
>>    Stu        KC1F
>>
>>
>>
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>
> &quot;Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've 
> got...till it's gone.&quot; from Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) but also 
> true about QSL.NET if more users don't open their wallets and help 
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