Improve Your QSL Card Return Rate
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Wayne Carroll, W4MPY
Website:
http://www.qslman.com
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November 15, 2000
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Tired of sending green stamps overseas and getting poor response??
You should give “Nesting” Metric Airmail envelopes a try. One
Reason for poor response is that many letters never get past the
Foreign post office….If a folded envelope is inside an outgoing
Envelope, it is a dead giveaway to “postal thieves” that someone
Is expecting a reply and there could be money in it. The nesting
Envelopes fit neatly inside one another with no telltale fold. I have
Had customers report up to 300% improvement in return rate.
The envelopes are sold in matched sets of 25 each for $10.00
Shipped first class mail. DX stations $14.00 shipped airmail.
THE QSLMAN® - W4MPY, BOX 73, MONETTA, SC 29105
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Anonymous post on November 15, 2000
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SPAM has went from newsgroups and e-mail to the web now. Thought I could get away from it...
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by VE3BHZ on November 15, 2000
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That's not SPAM, it's just a "commercial" which I am sure many DXers will find helpful. I should add, I have been doing something similar for about 30 years. I use a #10 security envelope to send the card and greenstamp(s) plus a #8 envelope (which fits without folding) for the return. A couple of times the #8 envelope was too small for oversized cards, but only once have I had to send 2 cards so either it works very well or I am the luckiest DXer in the world. My biggest complaint is "It's getting to be too bloody expensive Hi". I use the security type envelope so that the QSL card doesn't show through because that can also be a tip off to thieves. While we're at it, don't mention amateur radio or put callsigns on the address.
73
Dave
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by K4RFK on November 17, 2000
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Something I have found to work very well is to use plain cheap envelopes so that you CAN see thru to the material inside. I photostat the front page of our club newsletter and fold it around everything inside so that it just looks like junk mail to the curious. I have great results since doing this.
Bob K4RFK
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Anonymous post on November 20, 2000
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It would sure be nice if you made it clear what is an article and what is an advertisement in the list of links on your home page. Nothing wrong with having both, but people deserve to know which is which before selecting to read an "article" that ends up being an advertisement.
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by VE3BHZ on November 20, 2000
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Bob K4RFK: Sounds like a good idea Bob, it's amazing the little gems you can pick up while reading "SPAM" Hi. Don't do too much direct QSLing anymore cos I only need 3 more for all of them but I'll certainly use your tip in future.
Tnx
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Dave
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by N5NJ on November 20, 2000
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Responding to the comment about what is an article, and what isn't:
We are finding that two categories: Articles and News are not enough.
We have things that are like this one, where a paying advertiser has something to say that is valuable to the general ham public, if only from an awareness perspective. Granted, the ultimate purpose is to make a sale, but they are, in fact, paying the freight here on eHam.net.
We will be re-vamping the eHam.net home page in the near future to have several different sections that will contain articles of various types. General interest articles, DX Stuff, Propagation, Satellite Communication, Digital Communication (PSK-31 etc.), and others.
Any ideas ?
73,
Bob Naumann N5NJ
eHam.net Articles Manager
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by K3MGT on November 21, 2000
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Yes, OK, sure... it's an ad.... but so what? Not only is there some worthwhile info supplied, but also look who it's from.... W4MPY has been part of the QSL scene for a thousand years...there has to be a reason why so many go to Wayne for QSL cards. Not to mention most of the DXpeditions, so it's not just an ad... maybe there's something worth reading. (PS... he's not even my uncle or anything)... de K3MGT
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by KB9NGI on November 24, 2000
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Remind me never to invite you into my shack. You are so busy making rules for SOMEONE ELSE'S forum, I shudder to think what you would do there. A good rule is that guests should act properly and accept the host's standards.
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by W4YA on November 27, 2000
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I use K3FN's DX stamp service (and W2SAW's many years ago.) You send the dx station his country's stamps. Replys are 100%. www.net1plus.com/users/ryoung/index.htm.
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