Topband: QSL Services

[Dave_Richardson]

Rejection of perfectly valid IRC's is a serious matter for DX'ers.
It is an international agreedment between all participating countries that IRCs never expire, they must be honoured for exchange whatever their age provided they were correctly endorsed at the point of sale. Any failure of a PO to observe this rule should be rigorously persued with the country's postal authorities.
In any event, most ham operators and QSL managers receiving IRCs never exchange them for postage stamps, that's the worst possible deal! . They either "re-use" them for their own QSLing or sell them on below purchase price to other grateful hams for their QSLing. There must therefore be many 1000s of quite old but valid  IRC's in constant circulation.
73 Dave G4GED