Just went through a session at our local PO re redeeming the soon to expire
IRCs. The postal clerks all work through a computer program which is used
as inventory/cost etc control. I went in with some IRCs and they could not
figure out how to get the computers system to take care of the
I feel your pain. My local post orifice morons barely understand the concept
of IRCs, let alone what to do with them. There's only one clerk there who
has a clue and I'll only deal with her. Yesterday I went in to buy a
quantity of the new ones (with the 2012 expiration) and she tried to sell me
Please download US Postal Bulletin PR 22267, September 10, 2009, from
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/bulletin/2009/pb22267/pdf/pb22267.pdf
Take pages 11 and 12 with you to the PO and courteously ask the
counter clerk to read them.
Today I exchanged over a hundred old IRCs and purchased fifty
I continue to be amazed at the effort which some DXers make trying to
understand and use IRCs. I would never even contemplate buying or
using one. Just the good old green stamps for me. Every once in a
while I re-stock with $2 bills from my bank (plus some extra $1s for
DL). Seem to
I think I'll wait till they start trickling out through QSL managers, which
is how I get most of my IRCs in the first place. I had 17 to get out between
June and now and I probably won't need to send another card out (other than
K4M) until the new year.s
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At 12:14 PM 10/9/2009, Peter Dougherty wrote:
...the manager won't order any new ones till all of the
old ones are sold.
According to page 11 of the previously mentioned US Postal Bulletin PR 22267
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/bulletin/2009/pb22267/pdf/pb22267.pdf
the manager is prevented from
I certainly agree with John -NT5C.
Why anyone would bother with IRC' s has always surprised me. I' ve used
nothing but $ 1.00 and $ 2.00 US currency for all of the dx qsl' ing I' ve
done, which has encompassed # 1 Honor Roll.
Why bother with trying to educate the postal service about their own
