[Dx-qsl] Italian post office discounting IRCs?

[Tom Anderson]

Several years ago I had a large number of IRCs that were fixing to expire so I called our local postmaster who knew all about them.  He personally counted them and issued me the appropriate stamps.  He said the clerks on the windows know little if anything about IRC's (his words not mine)so he recommended the next time I have a large number to cash in for stamps that I bring them directly to him.

Tom, WW5L

--- On Tue, 5/1/12, Steven WheatleyKU9C <ku9c at ku9c.com> wrote:

> From: Steven WheatleyKU9C <ku9c at ku9c.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Italian post office discounting IRCs?
> To: lists at w2irt.net, dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 7:21 PM
> Be interesting to see if this is
> across Italy, or a specific post office.  I ran into
> this in the US...they wanted to go thru the IRCS and
> determine the postage based on the date the IRC was stamped
> (made for a lot of fun for the unstamped ones!). 
>   Thats why I tend to keep whatever I need to exchange,
> go to the post office once, and plan to spend an hour
> 'educating' the employee about the task.
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> From: "Peter W2IRT" <lists at w2irt.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 12:08 PM
> To: "'DX-QSL Reflector'" <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Italian post office discounting IRCs?
> 
> 
> Hi all, I received a followup email from Gabrielle this
> morning explaining the situation. This is something to think
> about when sending recycled IRCs to Italian managers. The
> Italian Post Office redeems IRCs at different rates,
> depending on their country of origin: - Italian IRCs = 0,60?
> - European IRCs = 0,75? - JA/Oceania IRCs = ?2,00 - USA IRCs
> = ?1,70 - pjd -----Original Message----- All, Earlier today
> I got the following message from IK3GES, the manager for
> TT8ES. I'd sent off an IRC and a self-addressed envelope
> along with my request, and from the Google translation
> below, it seems as if the Italian post office only redeems
> IRCs for 0,75? instead of the value of air mail postage to
> the destination country. This would appear to be a violation
> of the UPU regulations and the end result will be the
> manager getting in an awful lot of IRCs but sending the
> cards out via the bureau. The worst part is that he
> requested $2 or 1 IRC on his QRZ.COM web page. Can anybody
> clarify or 
>  confirm this policy from the Italian postal service? If so,
> it would seem that G$$$ (or mint stamps) are the only way to
> go when sending to Italy. I'm guessing that the OM's local
> post office official does not understand or care about the
> regulations.
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