[South Florida DX Association] Fwd: [MFDXA} Order IRC's at USPS WebSite

[Bill]

Some Post Offices act like your in the wrong place...

"Many hams have long complained about difficulties they have encountered
when purchasing International Reply Coupons"

Bill



On 6/11/2010 9:36 AM, W3AZD wrote:
> TO ALL           All I have to do to get IRC's is to go to my local  
> post office and buy them.
>
> 73, Don, W3AZD
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill" <bmarx at bellsouth.net>
> To: "aSFDXA" <SFDXA at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:07 AM
> Subject: [South Florida DX Association] Fwd: [MFDXA} Order IRC's at 
> USPS WebSite
>
>
>> From Tony N2MFT
>
> http://www.arrl.org/news/order-your-ircs-online-at-usps-web-site
>
>
>    Order Your IRCs Online at USPS Web Site
>
> *TAGS:* international reply coupons
> </news/search/Tag.name:international%20reply%20coupons>, ircs
> </news/search/Tag.name:ircs>, member countries
> </news/search/Tag.name:member%20countries>, postage stamps
> </news/search/Tag.name:postage%20stamps>, qsl cards
> </news/search/Tag.name:qsl%20cards>, universal postal union
> </news/search/Tag.name:universal%20postal%20union>, us postal service
> </news/search/Tag.name:us%20postal%20service>
> 05/26/2010
>
> Many hams have long complained about difficulties they have encountered
> when purchasing International Reply Coupons (IRC
> <http://www.upu.int/news_centre/2008/2008-08-08_irc.jpg>s) from their
> local post offices. Now the US Postal Service (USPS
> <http://www.usps.com/>) has made it easier to get those IRCs to send
> with your direct QSL cards -- order them online from the USPS Web site
> <https://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10052&productId=10006688&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=10000002&top_category=10000002&categoryId=10000034&top=&currentPage=0&sort=&viewAll=N&rn=CategoriesDisplay&WT.ac=10>. 
>
> The USPS ships all in-stock domestic orders for stamps and retail items
> within 1 business day via Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation or
> First Class Mail. Shipments should arrive within 3-5 business days. All
> stamp orders are charged a $1 handling fee, regardless of the order
> amount. IRCs purchased from the USPS, whether online or in person at a
> post office, cost $2.10 each.
>
> International reply coupons (IRCs) provide foreign addressees with a
> prepaid means of responding to inquiries, solicitations, or other types
> of communications that are initiated by US senders. IRCs are
> exchangeable for postage stamps by postal administrations in member
> countries of the Universal Postal Union (UPU
> <http://www.upu.int/news_centre/2008/2008-08-08_irc.jpg>). Each IRC is
> equivalent in value to the destination country’s minimum postage price
> for an unregistered airmail letter. According to the UPU, some 2.2
> million reply coupons are sold each year by 121 postal administrations.
> While not all countries sell IRCs, all the postal operators of the UPU's
> 191 member countries, and their territories, are required to exchange 
> them.
>
> More than a century after it first appeared in 1907, the IRC remains a
> useful item. Aside from its traditional use for correspondence,
> according to the UPU, two particular groups of users have emerged:
> Students who use them as a means of exchanging correspondence with
> academic institutions, and Amateur Radio enthusiasts, who use coupons
> when exchanging their QSL cards.
>
> As of October 11, 2007, only those IRCs that have been printed by the
> UPU may be redeemed at US post offices. The valid version of the
> international reply coupons printed by the UPU is approximately 3.75
> inches by 6 inches, has a bar code on the back and an expiration date of
> December 31, 2013. This policy is for those IRCs issued by the United
> States, as well as for those issued by foreign postal administrations.
>
>
>
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