----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerry Hohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ron Notarius W3WN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: Re:[2][DX-CHAT] IRC's For Sale
The new IRCs expire January 31, 2009 (I have one sitting in front of me).
Gerry VE6LB/VA6XDX
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Notarius W3WN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: Re:[2][DX-CHAT] IRC's For Sale
Well, let's be honest with ourselves... we've all known this day was
coming for 5 years now, since the first issuance of the "new" IRC. And
we'll be going through it again in another 5 years or so, unless the
bureaucracy relents (hah!)
In my case, since I have a small number of cards to go out that have been
sitting awhile, I should be OK getting a small quantity of IRC's from Bob
and getting them out -- immediately.
I suspect things will get VERY interesting come late November and
December, and frankly, I don't envy QSL managers who have to deal with
procrastinators (like me), or people who don't bother to read the
coupons, or people trying to pull a fast one...
I wonder if managers still get brown surface IRC's from time to time?
(Considering all of the odd stuff they get, I wouldn't be at all
surprised!)
73, ron w3wn
From: Jim Reisert AD1C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2006/10/06 Fri PM 12:04:08 CDT
To: Ron Notarius W3WN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] IRC's For Sale
This is a great and timely question, since I'll be sending out a batch of
the
expiring IRCs sometime this month. That gives the manager only a couple
of
months to cash them.
I don't want to "stiff" the manager, but I also don't want to take a loss
on
each IRC I'm holding (pay $1.20 but redeem for 0.84).
73 - Jim AD1C
--- Ron Notarius W3WN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob's post on about-to-expire IRC's just got me thinking...
How do QSL managers handle incoming IRC's & GS's?
In other words, when I send a manager an envelope containing a request,
is it
opened right away and any cash or IRC's removed (and duly noted, of
course),
or are the $$ etc. left in place until the actual processing of the
requested
QSL card?
I know this may sound like a "dumb" question -- and yes, I know every
manager
has their own way of doing things, so YMMV & VWPBL(STn) -- but the
upcoming
expiration date on the 1st Generation "New" IRC's makes me wonder. I
don't
want to put Bob (or another QSL manager) to the trouble and bother of
selling
& sending me IRC's if, by the time the receiving QSL Manager gets his
hands
on them to exchange for postage, they will have already expired.
OTOH, it beats arguing with the local bank branch about needing more
than 1
or 2 $2 bills at a time... or at least crisp $1 bills... especially when
sending to a manager that wants 2 IRC's or US$3 for postage due to
currency
exchange fluctuations... (you wouldn't believe how many teller lectures
I've
gotten over the years on the dangers of sending cash through the mail.
*sigh*)
Thoughts?
--
Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
USA +978-251-9933, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ad1c.us
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