Shelby is EXACTLY right.
I lived in Russia and Hungary for years and am active making probably 300 -
500 QSOs per month and in most contests. I just am not going to spend the
kind of money needed to answer bureau cards.
I answer EVERY direct card whether it contains a $1 or IRC, but I have a
standing instruction at the QSL bureau to throw away bureau cards.
At the end of my 6 1/2 years of living overseas, my (then) QSL manager asked
what to do with the 30,000 cards he had in boxes. I instructed him to throw
them away and he did.
No one "owes" anyone a QSL and people who put "The final courtesy of a QSO is
a QSL" their cards, or who expect an automatic QSL are still living in the
days of a penny postcard.
It would be cheaper to take up cigarette smoking.
Mike
W0YR
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