Robert Kavanagh wrote:
>
> I have received quite a lot of requests for information about getting a
> QSL from UA0KAG. Here's what I did.
>
(snip)
.Following a tip that I picked up a while
> back from NI6T I added the words UEHHOCTEW HET on the envelope. This
> apparently means "nothing of value". It would probably have been better to
> have typed this in Cyrillic characters, but I didn't.
I thank Bob for the credit, but I picked that up from a short piece
written by Ed Kritsky, NT2X, published the NJDXA Newsletter--which I
receive monthly in exchange for the NCDXC newsletter, The DXer. Ed said
that that artifice was routinely used by the Russian-American community
when sending stuff back to the Motherland, and that it had reduced--he
did not say "eliminated"--pilferage.
Use of uppercase Latin letters is not THAT far from the uppercase
Cyrillic. Those with Macs or other computers equipped with Cyrillic
fonts can create the "real article" on mailing labels.
--
Garry Shapiro, NI6T
Editor, The DXer
newsletter of the Northern California DX Club
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