> It is good to be equipped with the rules: > http://pe.usps.gov/text/imm/immc3_007.html#npLZq39wats > > I took some IRCs to the post office today, and they first tried to > tell me I had to have something to mail. I showed them the rules that > state they can be exchanged for postage stamps.
It is good to hear others are having better luck than here in Raleigh, NC. I took my IRCs to a different PO today and talked to a supervisor. She seemed to be familiar with IRCs and told me that older foreign issued IRCs can only be redeemed for postage amounts according to when they were issued. She showed me a section of a PO Field Service manual that indeed had a table showing issue date ranges and amounts they were worth. The amounts ranged from 18 cents and up to 84 cents I think. She will follow the field manual and not the statement in the referenced Web page that says: --------------- "372.3 Selling Price and Rate of Exchange a. The selling price of a reply coupon in the United States is $1.85. One coupon is exchangeable in any other member country for a stamp or stamps representing the minimum postage on an unregistered air letter. Unused U.S. coupons (that is those with the U.S. selling price stamped on them) may be exchanged only for United States postage stamps by the original purchaser at a discount of 1 cent below the purchase price. b. International reply coupons purchased in foreign countries are exchangeable at U.S. Post Office facilities toward the purchase of postage stamps and embossed stamped envelopes (including aerogrammes) at the rate of $0.84 per coupon irrespective of the country where they were purchased." -------------- My PO interprets the above as to apply to IRCs from the current year. It would be nice if they would make all their rules public. 73, Paul K5ESW ---------------------------------------------------------- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options ----------------------------------------------------------
