[SFDXA] IRC Canada Post

[Bill]

 From Tony N2MFT[MFDXA] :

The latest shots fired in the war against IRCs just took place and it is 
local. Canada Post has stopped selling them.

Two ways government shuts down a service that may be a motherhood or 
well loved service:
1. Underfund it until it can no longer serve its purpose and the public 
do not use it any  longer then it is easy to shut it down. The past 
Canadian government did this wholesale.
2. Overcharge for the service.  Over the past years the price of IRCs in 
Canada escalated to around $6.00 where for a long time you could still 
buy them in Japan for $2.00 each, not sure what they are in Japan now.  
At any rate when I took two QSL envelopes with IRCs to the PO today I 
was assured they still redeemed the IRCs but no longer sold them and had 
sent their stock back. The reason given was no interest in purchasing 
them .  Well I had no interest in purchasing them either at the 
ludicrous price they were offered.

Amen.

73 Reg, VE7IG