I do the same thing... I live in the USA... but when I send over seas I dont put stamps on anything and I still get a pretty good response..IRCs are just really hard to get.. good luck with your collecting

[quote="cineramax"]Hi Barry

I'm in the UK too :-) I never send any return postage costs to abroad requests, most people seem to reply anyway.

I used to send IRC's or US dollars, but i'm in a really small place where i find it very hard to get IRC's or foreign stamps. So now i just send a self addressed envelope with no postage on, and apologise in my letter saying that i can't get IRC's or foreign stamps. When i did used to send postage, i'd send either 2 IRC's or 2 US $ per request, if you prefer to. My post office are quite grumpy tho, they just say no one uses IRC's so we rarely get them ! So i gave up on them.

For my letter out to them, i just put two 38p stamps on, i think that covers anywhere in the world, if you're just sending a C5 size envelope. I put 3 stamps on if its bigger, say A4 Size ones.

For photos, i just google the name and then switch to images at the top and it gives you a load of pics of that person. Sometimes it can be quite hard to find a decent sized one if its a lesser known person, but usually i only print off a 9x6 size one in my local Boots shop from a disc.

Hope that helps anyway :-)[/quote]

wow, great help thanks very much. i'm totally thick with technology...my mates have just ripped the piss out of me because i didnt realise i could just take a pic from the net and stick it on a USB drive and print it off. also , great help with the info regarding stamps...didnt know that two 1st class stamps on an A5 envelope cover the whole of europe. wish i'd known earlier about the pics tho cause i just sent away 22 requests to players in the english premier league. lol anyways thanks very much for the help.

Hi Barry

I'm in the UK too :-) I never send any return postage costs to abroad requests, most people seem to reply anyway.

I used to send IRC's or US dollars, but i'm in a really small place where i find it very hard to get IRC's or foreign stamps. So now i just send a self addressed envelope with no postage on, and apologise in my letter saying that i can't get IRC's or foreign stamps. When i did used to send postage, i'd send either 2 IRC's or 2 US $ per request, if you prefer to. My post office are quite grumpy tho, they just say no one uses IRC's so we rarely get them ! So i gave up on them.

For my letter out to them, i just put two 38p stamps on, i think that covers anywhere in the world, if you're just sending a C5 size envelope. I put 3 stamps on if its bigger, say A4 Size ones.

For photos, i just google the name and then switch to images at the top and it gives you a load of pics of that person. Sometimes it can be quite hard to find a decent sized one if its a lesser known person, but usually i only print off a 9x6 size one in my local Boots shop from a disc.

Hope that helps anyway :-)

Hi cineramax :)

Thank you for your feedback {up}

Would you have a scan of the envelope and picture you received please?
If so, you are in the run for the $10 gift certificate.

Fanmail 8)

amazing success, can you help me please... i live in uk and have just started to collect autographs and have sent lots of LOR and SAE to various celebs and footballers etc from uk but have never sent out any requests to people abroad, what was the total cosst involved including your stamps to send out to holland and the International Reply Coupons for them to return?

also where do you get your photos?

thanks in advance

Sent to former Dutch footballer, Ronald Koeman, who's now manager of Feyenoord, sae, photo, letter.
Got back my photo signed with another signed photo.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/dsc03346b.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/189/dsc03347t.jpg/

Address used -

Feyenoord Football Club
De Kuip
Van Zandvlietplein 3
3077 AA Rotterdam
Netherlands