[Dx-qsl] none reply from US manager

[Steve Sullivan]

Can someone explain something to me?  Is there an underground market for in-USA SASEs?  I've dealt with overseas theft of IRCs and green stamps for years.  It's part of the equation. But lately, I seem to be having a problem with responses from stateside managers to whom I've sent an SASE.  One 2-lander (it's NOT N2OO, for sure!) stands out in particular.  I worked a station that he manages (actually operated from, I believe).  3 requests since last June have gone unanswered.  Email - no reply.  WHAT DO THEY DO WITH THE SASE?  Do they use it to mail their checks to the bank?  Make colorful collages or decoupage the coffee table (that one was the xyls suggestion)?  OR do they relable them and send them to other managers as THEIR SASEs?!!  
 
Or do I take the high road and assume that they are floating around the USPS somewhere, in a postal limbo?  I know mail gets lost.  I've had mail go astray going across town here in Charlotte.  It amazes me, though, that I have NEVER had a request lost in the mail
going to the likes of W3HNK or N2OO.
 
The only consolation is that at least there wasn't a $1.05 airmail stamp and IRCs involved each time.
 
(geez, i'm starting to sound like the late Andy Rooney!)
 
Anyway.  Enough carping.  Good luck to everyone in working the Malpelo and Pitcairn operations in the next couple of weeks.  And maybe I'll work a C6 on 6m this weekend in the contest from whom I CAN get a qsl.

73 de Steve, KZ2I
Charlotte, NC
Carolina DX Association - South Jersey DX Association