[Dx-qsl] CWA??

[Tom Anderson]

Peter:

CWA is Cryllic for USA,  I've had those letters on nearly every QSL 
envelope I've gotten from the USSR or Russian Federation.  Now days I 
usually just put them on there myself when I print out a mailing label.


Tom, WW5L



Peter Dougherty (W2IRT) wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> One of the replies I got back today was from Russia, and like many 
> Russian cards (or more exactly speaking, cards from eastern European 
> countries who use the cyrillic alphabet), the letters CWA were printed 
> on the bottom of the return envelope.
>
> Does anyone know what the significance of these letters is in Russia 
> or Eastern Europe? Is that an abbreviation for Air Mail? Printed 
> Matter Inside? Nothing of Value? This is really driving me nuts now -- 
> not that I have too far to go!
>
>
>
> - Peter
>
> W2IRT
>
>
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> got...till it's gone." from Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) but 
> also true about QSL.NET if more users don't open their wallets and 
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