[CQ-Contest] IRCs, a "lighter topic"...

[Tom Haavisto]

Personally, I don't redeem them.

IRC's are pretty pricey here in Canada (I bought a few last year).
When I get an IRC for a direct card, I pay for the postage and hang on
to the IRC.  Then, I send the IRC out to another station that I am
QSLing direct.

This way, IRC's tend to stay in circulation for quite a few years.


Some folks (QSL managers) who get a lot of them will sometimes sell
them.  Cheaper than buying them at the Post Office.


Tom - VE3CX



On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:04 AM, David Levine <david at levinecentral.com> wrote:
> My local post office (town of 10,000) doesn't seem to know what to do for
> selling or bringing one in that I received. A larger PO 2 towns away sells
> them and usually 1 person there knows what to do when I hand them an IRC.
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Geoffrey Way <wayg at cape-vision.com> wrote:
>
>> I recently had trouble using an IRC at a local branch Post Office when
>> posting a QSL reply to a DX station I'd worked in a contest.
>>
>> They told me that they "couldn't process" my IRC.