[Dx-qsl] Global QSL

[Ron Lago]

Hi Buzz
I send all of mine directly to the DX buro, bypassing the ARRL and wait 
until I have just under a pound before mailing. If it takes a year, it 
takes a year. I have used "M" bags in the distant pass but this works 
out as well.
73
Ron ac7dx

Buzz Jehle wrote:
> The Texas DX Society has pooled their outgoing cards for years. I know 
> because I have done it for 13 years! Any country that has enough cards 
> to fill an International Priority Mail Flat Rate envelope goes direct, 
> the remainder to the ARRL. Probably half go direct saving time and 
> money. The Post Offices ending of surface mail and dropping the 
> smaller sized flat rate envelopes have increased the costs 
> dramatically in the past two years. Asking members to use thinner and 
> nonfoldover cards for bureau mailings helps, and delaying sending 
> until that flat rate envelope is absolutely full also helps!
>
> Buzz N5UR
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Alfred Laun wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Ron Lago <ac7dx at comcast.net> wrote:
>> There will come a time when buro is out of the question. One country 
>> in particular sends buro cards to America free and I get 3-4 cards 
>> for the same call I have mailed to that operator direct...Make any 
>> sense??? Not to me it doesnt.
>> Japan has hurt the idea of buro cards badly.
>