I feel your pain. My local post orifice morons barely understand the concept of IRCs, let alone what to do with them. There's only one clerk there who has a clue and I'll only deal with her. Yesterday I went in to buy a quantity of the new ones (with the 2012 expiration) and she tried to sell me the ones that expire this year. When I explained that they'll be worthless paper in under three months she just shrugged and said the manager won't order any new ones till all of the old ones are sold. And of course, said manager is *never* in when I ask for him.
I'm just glad 90% of what I need to do at the PO I can do online or at the machine in the 24-hour lobby. If only I could get my IRCs and 61-cent stamps this way and mail out "Media Mail" parcels, I'd never need to actually enter a post orifice again. ----------------------------------- Regards, Peter, W2IRT -----Original Message----- From: kf...@njdxa.org [mailto:kf...@njdxa.org] On Behalf Of Steve Litwins Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 2:41 PM To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Subject: [DX-CHAT] IRCs agn... Just went through a session at our local PO re redeeming the soon to expire IRCs. The postal clerks all work through a computer program which is used as inventory/cost etc control. I went in with some IRCs and they could not figure out how to get the computers system to take care of the transaction. So...if the computer program dies the PO must be shut down as it's the only way transactions can be recorded into the system. At least...that the way it was explained to me. The are stuck on square zero WRT dealing with IRCs until somebody in their mgmt sys tells them how to enter the transaction into their computer prog. So...I went back to the house with IRCs still in hand and have to wait until they can figure out how to deal with their computer system. I hope they can do this in the 3 months left to cash the expiring IRCs before the expiry date. I'll try and pass the info on so you all will not have to go through what I just did... 73/dx steve, k8wk *********** ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
