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Subject: [Radioamadores Algarve] IRC's to be discontinued in the US<br>To: radioamadores_algarve <a href="mailto:radioamadores_algarve@yahoogrupos.com.br">radioamadores_algarve@yahoogrupos.com.br</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks to Luca Ghinazzi IW1CAB for this interesting news<br>
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If the US Postal Service (USPS) gets its way, it will no longer sell International Reply Coupons (IRCs) after January 27, 2013. According to the October 23 edition of the Federal Register, there is not sufficient demand for the USPS to continue offering IRCs to customers; however, per the Universal Postal Union (UPU) regulations, the USPS must continue to exchange (redeem) IRCs that have been purchased in foreign countries and presented at USPS facilities.The current Nairobi model is valid through December 31, 2013.</div>
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Comments on this proposed change will be accepted through November 23, 2012.<br>
IRCs provide foreign addressees with a prepaid <br>
means of responding to inquiries, solicitations <br>
or other types of communications such as QSL <br>
cards that are initiated by US senders. IRCs <br>
are exchangeable for postage stamps by postal <br>
administrations in member countries of the UPU. <br>
Each IRC is equivalent in value to the <br>
destination country’s minimum postage price for <br>
an unregistered airmail letter. The purchase <br>
price is in the US is currently $2.20 per IRC. –<br>
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Thanks to The Daily DX for some information.<br>
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