[Dx-qsl] USPS Considering Stopping Sales of IRCs

[Wes Quinn]

I wish the DX would use PayPal, but I mailed out almost 300 QSLs about 18 months ago and only 3 people used PayPal.

And only the big dxpeds use OQRS.  Most DX that I've worked the past 3 years don't use any of the latest technology to exchange money to receive a card.  We can only hope more will use it in the future and that they will use LoTW.

Thanks Jim, for sharing the info on IRCs in the US.

And I'm A BIG DX chaser!  :-)  So how do we get more people to use PayPal, OQRS and LoTW?

73 de k4Wes

> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:20:46 -0000
> From: "Phil Whitchurch" <phil at g3swh.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] USPS Considering Stopping Sales of IRCs
> To: <kenshep at one.net>,    <DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net>
> Message-ID: <20121106072020.A2968128300 at mdfmta009.tch.inty.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Hi Ken
> 
> Royal Mail stopped selling them some time ago.  Their reasoning is at
> www.g3swh.org.uk/irc.html
> 
> In these days of OQRS and PayPal, IRCs are becoming increasingly redundant.
> Sending US $2 instead of an IRC is a similar cost to you and about 1000%
> more acceptable to the DX station or his manager.
> 
> 73 for now
> 
> Phil
> G3SWH
> 

> 
> > On 11/5/2012 3:16 PM, James Skjervem wrote:
> > I saw this in my stamp collecting related news today - if it's been reported
> > before, I apologize.
> >
> > http://editions.amospublishing.com/LINN/Default.aspx?d=20121119&pagenum=1&f=0
> >
> > 73 Jim KS7S
>