Having handled piles of cards from my C6AFP trips over the years, I can attest that being a manager is a labor of love. It is much more work than one might think. Just keeping up with your own cards for DXCC purposes is tedious. Imagine a workload of about 1,000 times greater. I have an incredible amount of respect for those who volunteer as managers and insure that we get the card we worked so hard for.
Steve, N4JQQ/C6AFP Original Message: ----------------- From: Steven Wheatley KU9C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 14:12:41 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DX-NEWS] VP6DI ? Imagine perhaps 30,000 envelopes, 80,000 qsos in the log. Imagine opening each of the envelopes, verifying each of the qsos in each of the envelopes against your log, and issuing a card based on this analysis. If the qso is not in the log, imagine putting a note to that effect in the envelope. Imagine what it would take you to do that...on top of the demands of your daily life, such as work, family commitments, and the like. Folks, it should never surprise you that someone else will get your card days,w eeks, even months ahead of you. Only one person will get their card first. It is VERY Possible that you and your buddy can send your cards in the same day, at the same mailbox, and have your card come back at a significantly different date than your friend. It's all how the process works. Most if not all managers will let you know when they have 'cleared the pile'. I know that for many of the dxpeditions I handle this year, that is NOT the case yet...and I'm pretty sure based on an email discussion I had recently with Garth, that he is not there yet either. Please have patience......qsl managing is a labor of love for the manager......and not a high paying job. This is not intended to be a criticism of anyone here...just a 'word to the wise' of how things are in the world of QSL managing. THe only way to change this is to have the manager HOLD all the cards until he/she is done processing, and then take a U-Haul to the post office, and dump them all in the hopper at once. Then, more or less, everyone gets their card at the same time. If you think of the issues that would bring up, I suspect you'll agree the current process is working quite fine. 73 Steve KU9C --------------------------- Steve Wheatley KU9C PO Box 31 Morristown NJ 07963-0031 U.S.A. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ku9c.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems, etc DX-NEWS http://njdxa.org/dx-news DX-CHAT: http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX NEWS items only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news%40pro-usa.net ------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems, etc DX-NEWS http://njdxa.org/dx-news DX-CHAT: http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX NEWS items only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news%40pro-usa.net -------------------------------------------------------
