My experience has been that a lot of the DX stations that have "mail drops" in the US use them both ways. I have sent quite a few QSL cards to "mail drops" with green stamps, only to have the cards returned to me with a US stamp. Obviously, not all ops are ethical.
I have purchased foreign stamps from Bill Plum too. At the risk of raising the ire of my Canadian friends, I would guess that my return rate, when sending cards to Canadian stations with their postage on the return envelope, is about 50%, worse than Mexico! That being said, it seems that the return rate from US stations using an SASE is only a little better. Caveat: Most of my QSLing these days involves six meter cards, etc. I generally have pretty good luck with HF DX stations on the other bands. Must be something about six!!!!! Regards, Steve, N4JQQ Dave ve3wej wrote: > there are several carribean stations I have worked that use a mail drop in > florida, and they state that. > > these are used for receiving the mail only, envelopes are mailed from the dx > country, but no cash/irc's etc arrive at that country and get stolen.... > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 7:42 AM > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Mail Drops > > > >> Mail Drop ? >> You got me . Ive never hear of this ? Where did you get this information? >> If I need a card ill send direct with a couple bucks especially if its a >> new one but im not sending my money to everyone that wants some of it >> :)... >> Dave N8DC >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jim WA9YSD" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 6:44:05 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >> 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 >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
