[CQ-Contest] new ircs?? old ones to expire?

[N2TK]

I can't find anywhere on a new or old IRC where it says you can only get
postage if the letter is going to the country where the postmark on the irc
is the same. Is this really the case?
Tony
N2TK

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-admin at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-admin at contesting.com]On Behalf Of David Robbins
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 10:21
To: 'Jamie WW3S'; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] new ircs?? old ones to expire?

>
> Well, in the mail today was a card from a JA for a qso in last
weekends
> BARTG and include was a new style IRC!! They are as big as a qsl card
> themselves and clearly stated on the back (in about 30 different
> languages)
> is the expiration date, 31-Dec-2006. So these new ones clearly will
expire
> but after checking again on the older ones I have, I can find no
> expiration
> date. I'd check at the local post office but every time I bring one
in, it
> takes the whole office just to figure out how to spell IRC. 73

One thing to watch for if you actually try to cash in an IRC is the
postmark.  My local PO actually has someone who understands them and has
refused to cash them for missing postmarks on the side that is supposed
to be stamped when you buy it.  He has also refused them when he can
tell that the postmark isn't from the country I am trying to send the
card back to.


David Robbins K1TTT
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