[CQ-Contest] Most cost-effective sending of qsl's direct to qsl bureaus via delivery services

[Yuri]

HAM Radio is a great hobby, which contains a lot of "sub-hobbies" in it, 
and that's what makes it attractive to so many different people.
Some love DXing, others - Contesting. Or building antennas and/or equipment.
Or even rag-chewing or FT8... Collecting paper QSL cards is one of them.
The only problem is we have a lot of aging people (myself included) in 
our hobby, and many of us think that things should be done "their" way. 
And only that way!
Believe it or not, but in 2024 some people still love receiving paper 
QSLs. Why discourage them from doing this?
Paper QSLs for many people have a meaning, as well as sentimental value. 
And not exclusively for DXCC submission purposes.

73, Yuri VE3DZ

On 2024-01-22 3:53 p.m., Jim Brown wrote:
> LOTW
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> With a K9 call, I overwhelmed the W9 Bureau when I moved to California 
> in 2006. JAs have an award for the quantity of paper cards. I was 
> getting more cards than all others in the Bureau combined! I stopped 
> using the Bureau ten years ago, because JAs were causing the  Bureau 
> to be 2-3 years behind. Now, I only send paper cards to US hams who 
> are chasing awards like County Hunters, whose sponsors are so behind 
> the times that they won't accept screen prints of LOTW confirmations.
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> 73, Jim K9YC
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> On 1/22/2024 11:56 AM, kq2m at kq2m.com wrote:
>> I would appreciate any information that you can share on what 
>> cost-effective and reliable services there are out there that you 
>> have successfully used when sending boxes of qsl's overseas.
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