Yes Eric!

Maybe I should have sent something out before. I ran into this while trying to print international stamps on Stamps.com. They asked where the mail was going to and I said "Russia" since the DX station had a Russian manager. It would not let me print and I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I thought it was a software problem. I then moved on and tried to print an international stamp for "Germany" and it went through as it was supposed to.

I researched it and found what you have listed here. No mail to Russia except to the diplomats.

I emailed the Russian manager and he said to use "my friends in Europe!" I searched "my friends in Europe" to see what it was, and got no definitive hits. Maybe I could email one of the big managers in EU and offer them a few Euro via PayPal to handle sending the envelope to Russia.

I'm still holding the QSL for now. I would probably hold bureau cards to Russia as well until this war blows over.

I will let you know if I come up with a solution after emailing a few EU managers.

Very 73,
Randy N4QV

On 3/15/2023 10:55 AM, Mark Horowitz wrote:

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Begin forwarded message:

From: "Eric S." <[email protected]>
Date: March 14, 2023 at 4:07:43 PM EDT
To: Mark Horowitz <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Black W9MDB <[email protected]>, Gary Dixon K4MQG Card Checker CDXA <[email protected]>
Subject: DX QSL to Russia

Mark, can you please let Randy know about this, I had a QSL manager tell me in Russia he never received a QSL and funds I sent him for a QSL back in Oct. of 2022. I never heard about this USPS mail stop to Russia. I think an email should be put on the clubs Groups email system to all our members to inform them.

73

Eric/wa1sxk

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Eric S. WA1SXK