[Dx-qsl] Japanese Stations

[Ken Scheper]

When I receive a non-sealing sase from JA, UA, and a number of other DXCC 
countries, I merely take my return label and place it across the rear flap.

To my knowledge, I've never had one of these pilfered from my side.  in my 
earlier years, I trusted the honesty of postal authorities everywhere, and 
did lose a few to thieves which I found out later.  I never quite understood 
why they didn't have sealing glue on the envelopes.  I've heard of countries 
having personnel just opening up the envelopes with no glue, and removing 
the GS then putting them back into processing.  During my stint as manager 
for Dave Heil, I do indeed recall receiving some QSL's referring to an 
enclosed GS or more, but nothing there.  I just assumed it as the price of 
doing a service and sent  it back direct absorbing the cost.

I can't point at one country more than another handling sase's incorrectly. 
I've processed hundred's of thousands of QSL's and have pretty well seen it 
all.  Find a way to seal the envelope.  That's the safest way to send it 
anywhere...even the US.

73
Ken
WA8JOC




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From: "Yutaka Sakurai (ysakurai)" <ysakurai at cisco.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:59 PM
To: "Tom Wylie" <thomasgwylie at gmail.com>; "DX Posts" 
<DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Japanese Stations

> Hello Tom,
>
> My wife (JJ2VLY) and I (JQ2GYU) are the QSL manager team for NH0J, NH0Z, 
> JI1FGX/DU9, DW8BXU, and some more stations which we, ourselves, activated 
> such as T88YU, T88LY, T88GS, JW/JQ2GYU, and so on.
> We found just the same problems for the QSL requests from our own country, 
> Japan, through our activities.
>
> I presume the reasons as follows.
>
> (1) Most Japanese hams didn't have a chance to be taught how to DIRECT 
> QSLing because the JARL BURO service has been so nice. They are usually 
> use the BURO service as the default to exchange the QSL cards.
>
> (2) The Japanese CQ ham radio magazine have not been providing such type 
> of information for many years.
>
> (3) The airmail envelope is hard to obtain in these days here in Japan. 
> Furthermore, if you find it fortunately, it most likely doesn't have a 
> method of sealing. The internet emails are killing the snail mail system.
>
> (4) The guidelines for QSLing which are often available on the web site of 
> some QSL managers are difficult to read for most Japanese hams because of 
> the language problems. The Google translation doesn't work very well for 
> English to Japanese.
>
> Please let me know if you need any helps for your QSLing to JA.
> I am more than happy to cooperate with you and the other QSL managers in 
> the world for JA issues.
>
> Yutaka, JQ2GYU, also JF1LZQ, WS2Y, M0LZP, and T88YU
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DX-QSL [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tom 
> Wylie
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 12:48 AM
> To: DX Posts
> Subject: [Dx-qsl] Japanese Stations
>
> Can I make a plea please on behalf of British QSL Managers.
>
> As a manager I receive many cards from Japan.
>
> First - why do you use envelopes with no method of sealing,   no lick
> and stick, or self adhesive flap?
>
> Please use blue airmail envelopes.    Some of the plain envelopes I
> receive are very thick and by the time I add the card
> the combined weight is often over 10 gramms.   The UK break point is 10
> gramms unlike many European Countries and others
> where a standard letter is 20 gramms.    When an envelope is over 10
> gramms in the UK it puts the postage up to the next level
> and $2 is insufficient to buy a stamp.
>
> Help us out here!
>
>
>
> Tom
> GM4FDM
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