[Dx-qsl] QSL Cards

[Tom Wylie]

HI Tom

I guess on here we are preaching to the converted.  Any real DXer knows 
the problems and pitfalls and avoids them.   I think the people we need 
to educate are the new hams or people who do not subscribe to Lists, 
Reflectors, Magazines or ARRL.     I dont know how to get the message 
out to them....

I prefer just the normal pre printed blue coloured air mail envelope 
with the red and blue edging.    That signifies AIR MAIL.

Some of the guys wrap everything up in a sealed envelope, surrounded by 
paper opaque, sealed in a manila envelope, bound by rolls of sellotape 
so that the only way you can open it, is to rip it to shreds.   HiHi

I know the mail to some countries can be hazardous at times but to the 
UK and Scotland in particular it is usually OK.......

I posted 50 direct cards today - so now I have everything off my chest, 
I'll do another 50 tomorrow hihi - then its Florida on Saturday - yipeeeee

73 de tom
GM4FDM

Tom Anderson wrote:
> Tom:
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> I use a mailing program that prints out a sheet of address labels any 
> size I want or it will print out just one.  I use these on 99% of the 
> QSLs I send out.  Nice thing about the program I use is that it also 
> has address and envelope size formats for "foreign addresses" where 
> the postal code might be in a different spot than what the U.S. Postal 
> System prefers for domestic mail. Sometimes trying to put say a 
> Canadian or UK postal code in the U.S. ZIP code block drives the 
> program crazy, so it just rejects the address as improper.  It does 
> fine when I open the "foreign address" drop down box and fill in the 
> information there.
>
> I've noticed that some JAs and UA stations use a rubber stamp that has 
> their address both in English and Japanese or in the Russian Cyrillic 
> alphabet.
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> I've often thought of having a rubber stamp made that had "Air Mail" 
> written in several different languages.  I've asked a couple 
> manufacturers, but they weren't able to reproduce either Chinese, 
> Japanese, or Russian letters on a rubber stamp. Oh well another idea 
> down the drain hi hi.  Guess "Air Mail" in English is just too universal
> along with the Correro Aereo in Spanish, or Par Avion in French. At 
> one time I had a bunch of those little blue UK air mail stickers they 
> give you at the Royal Mail office.  I spent a month in the UK in the 
> summer of 1995.
>
> I've also experienced the same problems with some of my DX card 
> mailouts.  I once got an envelope from a UA station that had cards 
> from a half dozen UA stations for one of my DXpeditions.  The "excuse" 
> for no postage was they couldn't find any U.S. $$, nor and IRCs, but 
> yet they could air mail the envelope.  They could have just sent me 
> some UA air mail stamps that I would have used on some of my QSLs 
> returns from UA stations.
>
> Another person sent me a "registered" letter with only his card 
> inside.  No return envelope or $$.  Never figured that one out.
>
> 73 de
> Tom, WW5L/C91TL/7P8TA/V31EF/G0-WW5L
>
> Tom Wylie wrote:
>> Hi there
>> Please dont be offended if this does not apply to you, but as I 
>> manager I ghet around 20 direct cards EVERY day.   Not a lot I guess 
>> compared with Steve KU9C and others but I guess the same applies.
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>> It is surprising how many cards I get either just stamped like a 
>> postcard or in an enveolpe without a return envelope or any form of 
>> postage.   Please do NOT be offended if I return these cards via the 
>> buro.   If you expect a direct reply, please have the courtest to 
>> include a self addressed envelope (sometimes I cannot read your 
>> writing and the address on your card is NOT always correct) and 
>> please include sufficient funds to respond directly either by the use 
>> of the IRC or even green stamps.
>>
>> There may be some new hams out there desperate to receive a QSL but 
>> haven't given the matter sufficient thought.
>>
>> 73 de tom
>> GM4FDM
>>
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>> "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've 
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>> also true about QSL.NET if more users don't open their wallets and 
>> help financially. Please contribute TODAY !!
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