A mail drop is a safe mailing address (often in the US or a western European country) that a person who lives in a country with known problems of mail theft will use. Anyone who wants a card sends their request, an SASE and a couple of dollars to the drop address. Every so often, someone picks up the mail from the drop and personally delivers it to the guy in the foreign country (or he picks it up when he's here, etc), thus bypassing his corrupt postal officials' notice. He then uses your $$ to buy local stamps to send your reply back to you directly from his country. Nothing nefarious whatsoever! There are a couple of guys in Nicaragua who work this way, and Frank, V51AS does something similar to a drop in Germnay (I think this is a relative or friend back home in Frank's case). In both instances, the cards usually get sent back from the foreign country.
----------------------------------- Regards, Peter, W2IRT -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim WA9YSD Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 6:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dxbase] Mail Drops This is new to me. Now I know why I have not been getting some of my QSL cards cause I did not send them any green stamps to a USA mail drop. What is this and what purpose do they serve, and why do some people do not like them? Stay on course, fight a good fight, and keep the faith. Jim K9TF/WA9YSD ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
