It seem to me the big mistake everyone is making is to include the post
office in this transaction, In the 60's and 70's I used 100's of IRC's
and never put a single one into the PO. We used them as currency between
amateurs. The DXNS ( Geoff Watts) would accept them as payment and then
offer them out again as prizes or sell at a discounted price back to
amateurs. The humble IRC was currency between amateurs, they didn't seem
to have a sell-by date back then, I am guessing it was a post office
moron who thought up the date idea!
If you will include the PO expect problems otherwise we should simply
return to the old ways Grasshopper!
73 David G3XYP
Dick Flanagan wrote:
Please download US Postal Bulletin PR 22267, September 10, 2009, from
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/bulletin/2009/pb22267/pdf/pb22267.pdf
Take pages 11 and 12 with you to the PO and courteously ask the
counter clerk to read them.
Today I exchanged over a hundred "old" IRCs and purchased fifty new
ones. The counter clerk thanked me profusely for bringing in those
two pages as it saved her a lot of work. She admitted that this was
new to her and a valuable learning experience.
Alternatively, you can move to Carson City, Nevada, where I already
have them trained. :)
Dick
At 11:40 AM 10/9/2009, Steve Litwins wrote:
>
>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
>***********
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Dick Flanagan K7VC
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