[CQ-Contest] What to do with old QSL cards?

[Jim Brown]

On 7/2/2022 3:54 AM, K3TN via CQ-Contest wrote:
> For JA cards, I think there was a sushi preparation guide, too.

Contesting from W6, I could use JA bureau cards for landfill. Moving 
here from Chicago in 2006, I responded to bureau cards for new bands for 
5-10 years. UNTIL I learned that there was a JA award for the number of 
cards received -- if I worked a station five times in a contest, I'd get 
five cards, all computer printed. That's when I put a notice on my qrz 
page that I respond to NO bureau cards from JA. I've since expanded that 
to not sending paper cards for any QSO that's confirmed on not on LOTW.

Contesters, especially expeditioners, fail to realize that many of the 
little guys working them are doing so for band-country DXCC credits. 
LOTW is cheap and easy, while paper cards are hard and expensive, 
especially with a QSL mgr in countries where postage is expensive, like 
Spain. Having moved from W9 to W6 in 2006, I started over on all awards, 
including DXCC, realizing that counting W9/W8 QSOS for DXCC would be 
cheating. I spent FAR too many dollars on paper cards that should have 
been in LOTW, and the QSOs that WERE in LOTW saved me enough money to 
buy a K3 and a P3.

73, Jim K9YC