[OKDXA] QSL Managers and the Bureau

[Jerry Chouinard]

Kim:

I can only help with a few I have on a list who do not answer cards sent to 
the bureau.
I don't know if a list as such exists - I wouldn't want to be on it 
personally if I were a
QSL manager.

The three call signs I trap here are:

N5AU for VP2E
KZ5RO for many call signs
KB5IPQ for many call signs

They want nothing to do with cards "Via the Bureau".  We've received 
hundreds for each
manager? since October.  I do think they post their policies various 
places.  At least that
is what I was told when I confirmed "Toss Bureau Cards?" with them.

Generally speaking most managers do answer cards via the bureau.  I see cards
headed toward dozens of 5 land QSL managers.

1990 Qs may find a few guys have "passed on".  One that comes to mind is 
W5NO for 4S7NE.
I'm sure there are others but again no official list.

73 - Jerry K5YAA

At 11:58 AM 1/29/03 -0600, you wrote:
>How should I interpret GOLIST QSL manager listings when they fail to say 
>"OR BUREAU?"  I have a slug of QSL's, some for some pretty old contacts 
>(c. 1990), to send out and it would be pretty darned expensive to send $2 
>to each manager, not to mention the extra $1 in postage simply to get to 
>the manager (assuming the mail isn't pilfered).  I'm in no huge hurry, so 
>waiting for the bureau suits me fine.  I don't begrudge supporting 
>managers and their operations, but the bill would easily exceed $100 at 
>this point and I'm not sure that the logs I'm in even exist anymore. Are 
>there certain managers that simply refuse to accept bureau cards or that 
>simply never get them (because they don't belong to their national 
>organization)?  If so, how do I find out who they are so I won't wait 
>forever for a card I'll never get via the bureau?
>
>73,
>
>Kim Elmore, N5OP
>                           Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
>                        University of Oklahoma
>         Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
>"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
>greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.
>
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