[Dx-qsl] RE: IRC's

[Ernie Walls]

In VK, according to my local post office, the stamps would be treated as
'irrelevant', an internal USA PO pricing issue. 

As long as the IRC is current, it WILL be accepted.

Ernie Walls VK3FM
vk3fm at wallsy.com.au
vk3fm at arrl.net



-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Flanagan [mailto:dick at twohams.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 28 August 2007 9:12 AM
To: dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] RE: IRC's

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
 >
 >------------------------------
 >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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