[Dx-qsl] RE: IRC's

[Callaway Ed-eaim148]

I agree that 2006-expiry IRCs are, quite literally, not worth the paper
they're printed on.
 
However, what Alfred may be seeing is 2009-expiry IRCs that his post
office has already marked with a lower sale price -- if I remember
correctly it was $1.85 -- that was charged prior to the recent postal
rate increase to $2.00.  My post office adds stamps to these IRCs, in
apparently random places, to bring their "face value" up to $2.00.
Since it's the correct IRC and they still stamp it in the proper (left)
side, I've let them do this, even though I do not believe it's necessary
(or useful:  I've always thought the foreign post office neither knows
nor cares what the purchase price was in the IRC's country of origin,
since its value is the same (the minimum postage on an unregistered air
letter) regardless).  
 
I think that, if the IRC is the 2009-expiry version (having two fingers
about to touch, framed in a postage stamp - the image inspired by the
famous Michelangelo work adorning the Sistine Chapel:
http://www.dailydx.com/2007irc.jpg ), it's okay to let them put
additional stamps on them, pointless though it may be.
 
But I can then repeat Alfred's question:  Does anyone know if having
extra stamps on a 2009-expiry IRC causes problems overseas?
 
Ed Callaway N4II
Motorola ARC W4MOT
 
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:54:28 -0400
From: Alfred J Cammarata <alitalian39 at juno.com>
Subject: [Dx-qsl] IRC's
To: dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
Message-ID: <20070827.155428.2664.0.Alitalian39 at juno.com>
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My local PO sez they dont have new IRC's. They wanted to add U.S.
postage stamps & cancel them on old IRC's to bring up to current rate.
Before I go this route anyone know if this is acceptable overseas? Tnx 
73 Al
ALFRED CAMMARATA
W3AWU
 
 
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