[RTTY] [YCCC] [CQ-Contest] IRC (International Reply Coupon) Questions

[Ron Rossi]

The procedure for the clerk on his automated US Post Office sales screen 
is...

GOTO:
Stamps ---> Exchange ---> INT'L IRC

This will allow the clerk to take the IRC as payment for the postage.

73 es God Bless de KK1L...Ron Rossi (kk1l at arrl.net) <><
QTH: Jericho, Vermont
My page: http://home.comcast.net/~kk1l

David Robbins K1TTT wrote:
> You just have to educate the clerks.  Once they know how to handle them you
> just turn them in for the airmail stamps... or just do like lots of others
> do and buy the stamps yourself and send the irc out to the next station you
> send an envelope to.
> 
> 
> David Robbins K1TTT
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
>> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Andrei Stchislenok
>> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 02:59
>> To: CQ-Contest; yccc at contesting.com; RTTY GROUP
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] IRC (International Reply Coupon) Questions
>>
>> Guys, thank you for all replies.
>>
>> I went to my local USPS office, again. Clerk looked at IRC, did not know
>> what this was. Supervisor was not available, so I went back home. Bought
>> stamps.
>>
>> Personally, next time I will ask not to send me IRC's, seems to me it is a
>> headache.
>>
>> 73's Andrei NP3D
>>
>>
>> 2008/3/29, Andrei Stchislenok <asnp3d at gmail.com>:
>>> Sorry for possible off-topick.
>>>
>>> I have received some IRC coupons with QSL's for YN2S.
>>> How does it work nowadays?
>>> Should I go po USPS and exchange them to 90c stamps for overseas mail,
>> or
>>> should I bring all envelopes to USPS and have them stamp envelopes for
>> every
>>> IRC coupon instead?
>>>
>>> Also if IRC coupon issued in USA,  are they valid to use in USA or
>> coupons
>>> must be issued in other country?
>>>
>>> I found this remark on some USA QSL manager web page:
>>>
>>> "IRCs are not valid in the country of issue. All IRCs must be issued
>>> outside of the USA for my use." [end of quote]
>>>
>>> Is this right?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> --
>>> 73's Andrei NP3D
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>>
>> --
>> 73's Andrei
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