[Dx-qsl] IRC handling by USPS

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--- Tom Anderson <andersonww5l at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Marsha:
> 
> Last year when the old large IRCs were about to
> expire
> I called our post office and talked to the
> postmaster
> and he said just call him and make an appointment to
> redeem them all.  I had probably 50-60 large ones
> and
> several small ones from  cards I'd received from a
> DXpedition I was on.  He gave me new 84 cent airmail
> stamps for all of them, even the old small ones.  
> 
> Of course now I have to add $0.06 extra postage each
> time with the air mail stamps. hi hi.
> 
> As an aside, I was at the Dallas-Fort Worth
> International Airport Air Mail postal facility
> recently and none of the clerks there even knew what
> an IRC was.  It used to be that you could drop air
> mail letters off at the AMF any time of day or night
> and they would be processed and loaded on the next
> plane headed whereever your letter was going within
> hours of dropping them off. 
> 
> The AMF folks tell me that all of their mail now
> goes
> to the North Texas Postal Sectional Center north of
> the airport, is processed, and then brought back to
> the AMF for dispatch. Also, instead of being open 24
> hours a day as it once was, it closes at 10 p.m. and
> any mail dropped off there after 8 p.m. is processed
> the next day, according to the new signs on the
> doors.
> 
> Years ago when I was in London for a month taking a
> graduate course, my XYL Cheryl (WY5H) would take
> airmail letters for me to the AMF and I'd get them
> in
> 3 days.    
> 
> 73 de Tom, WW5L
> 
> 
> --- Craftygal <craftygal at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> >  
> > Those of you who may have trouble getting IRC's at
> > the USPS.  I went to buy
> > IRC's at my local PO where I always get them and
> got
> > a new guy.  (the other
> > 2 clerks knew what to do).  They talked him
> through
> > the process and I wrote
> > down the code he keys into the machine -- 330700. 
> > Of course, if they don't
> > have any IRC's or 10 and 5 cent stamps in stock, I
> > can't help with that
> > part.  And don't forget to watch them stamp each
> one
> > on the left bottom
> > square.  
> > 
> > 73
> > Marsha N8FE 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
> &quot;Don't it always seem to go that you don't know
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> Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) but also true about
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> help financially. Please contribute TODAY !!
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