[Dx-qsl] RE: IRC's

[Dick Flanagan]

Ed is correct regarding the USPO adding stamps to 2009 expiry IRCs in 
order to bring them up to the current $2.00 retail price.  As for 
European acceptance, I don't see why they should care as they have no 
way of knowing when you bought them or for how much.

73, Dick

At 02:14 PM 8/27/2007, Callaway Ed-eaim148 wrote:
 >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>
 >Content-Type: text/plain
 >
 >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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