[CQ-Contest] Another long DOs and DONTs of QSLing

[Zack Widup]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Bill Parry wrote:

> This is a great review for QSLing.  It is also reassuring.
>
> I have comments about a couple of items.
>
>
> "3.     Send via Air Mail.  If you know the DX station has postal theft
> problems, send via Registered Mail (or via FedEx if you are really
> desperate-one good FedEx is better than three lost Air Mails)."
>
> According to my postmaster, all letters outside the US are sent Airmail. I
> asked if I needed to affix a special Air Mail sticker or write Air Mail and
> he said that I didn't need to. Those Air Mail stamps are real pretty and I
> am always worried that my envelope might be intercepted by "stamp
> collectors!"
>

In the USA this is true.  I've been told this by many postal employees.

You can have the post office put a sticker on it for the postage instead 
of a stamp. It still goes by air mail. I do that sometimes.

73, Zack W9SZ