Sad news: USPS has announced they will stop selling International
Reply Coupons (IRC's) in about five weeks. Stock up now before it's too late!
I always thought IRC's were a wonderful method of fostering
physically mailed international communications. Unlike U.S.
currency, IRC's featured beautiful artistic color intaglio art. So
unamerican! The last IRC's I bought a few years ago had an excerpt
of the hands from Michelangelo's 'Creation of Adam' (from the
Vatican's Sistine Chapel) superimposed over the golden image of a
postage stamp: http://www.dailydx.com/images/irc2007.jpg
Most of us on this list have mailed IRC's to international shortwave
broadcasters to improve their chances of receiving some nice SWL swag
from certain stations.
Reportedly, USPS will stop selling IRC's on January 27, 2013, but
they'll continue honoring them into the foreseeable
future.
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?371180-Outbound-International-Reply-Coupons-Discontinued
Most postal clerkbots I talk with nowadays say they've never heard of
them, so you might have to talk with a USPS supervisor or postmaster
to get any.
-Ed Cummings
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