Up to recently, IRC's were the better choice in qsling. Green Stamps were prone to disintegrating/evaporating in the postal system.
But recently due to various Postal Systems saying they don't need to comply with all the Postal union rules. (Or in some cases, outlying post offices may have never even seen the rules) Has resulted in GS's being a bit more economical. Theoretically, a IRC could be exchanged for a 'first class' postage. But various countries have different levels of 'first class'....and the one they want to exchange with postage for...is via camel or canoe. If the sender wants to send it Air Mail...he must make up the difference. The other issue is exchange rate. Lately it seem to change as often as Joan River's face. And one thing most people don't know is that most countries do not give a stamp to the person exchanging the IRC, they take the letter and imprint it with the postage mark. So you can't get a bunch of stamps and sit at home sticking them on envelopes. One European country has even done away with Post Offices per se, you buy your postage at convenient stores/petrol stations etc. So my basic rule is.."Do as the station asks. If they say send IRC's or they say 2 GS's...I do as requested. You may find this helpful http://www.qsl.net/w9ol/IRC_Chart.htm you can include it in the Programs Menu by putting C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEPLORE.exe into the Command line and the above url into the Arguments line. Give it any name you want in Menu Text And Jack, you might include this as an icon like you have for Pathfinder. ----------------------------------------------------- If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. ----------------------------------------------------- Bill H. in Chicagoland webcams at http://24.14.49.4:8080 weather at http://mywebpages.comcast.net/w9ol/WX/HH.htm
