IRC Alternatives?

[DiamondDave]

Well I just sent a request to a couple of actors in Great Britain from the US and didn't know about IRC's so I sent a couple of $5 Starbuck gift cards as compensation, in place of postage. Let's see if it works.
AB

LOL!

Great idea!

[mwmiller]

Lucky you. The rest of us are told that po no longer offers them and online it says no longer offered. If you can get them, keep using them.

[michaelwsnyder]

IRC's are good until December 31, 2013. But, my post office wouldn't sell them to me this last Thursday. They were discontinued on January 31st.

[ElfMaidenArcher]

IRC's are good until December 31, 2013. But, my post office wouldn't sell them to me this last Thursday. They were discontinued on January 31st.

So, I guess they'll just throw them out? Wow.

[sonicsam]

You can buy them from other countries on Ebay. Just be careful which ones you buy. ALL the dark blue ones expire Dec 31,2013. The new one is coming out in July and is a light blue. http://www.arrl.org/news/new-internatio ... introduced

[charger88]

Your post office may be selling their remaining supply but they are no longer available to be ordered. They have been deleted from their product list.

Not necessarily true.

I asked about them at my local post office and they ordered them in for me.

Good luck with that order. The post service did announce they are done. Most post offices are not aware as it has only been a couple weeks since they stopped.

[charger88]

Horrible, isn't it? I still have to ask my local US post office if they still have some left. It's like we have to have our own little stamp trading center or black market, lol. Royal Mail sells stamps worldwide. I don't know about the other countries.

I tried to order stamps from Royal Mail and they would not ship to my address in the U.S.

[sikiau]

Does it mean that I can still use IRCs if I can buy them from my post office?>< I havent heard that IRCs wont be valid in the future:$

[EmbraceTheMadness]

if i sent a request international would i just include in my lor that i sent $3.00 for postage?! how would i word it? also how much cash should i send to uk/canada? im so confused

[luckyas13canbe]

Why is this conversation still going on? There are multiple threads about it in the correct forum, which has already been linked to in this post.

Here's a simple way to figure out if you should be posting here

Do you have feedback from sending a request to someone? - Post in Feedback
Do you have anything else to say? - Don't post in Feedback


Edit to add - for once, well done admin, you've moved this to the correct place.