Re: [IRCA] thoughts on qsl's

[Michael Hawkins <downsized99@xxxxxxxxx>]

As far as I''m concerned, he was very typical AND it took him longer to do that than it did to send you the QSL.  He was likely paid by the hour.  If he had went ahead and sent you a QSL, he would have probably been taking work away from a subordinate who was hired to send out QSLs, who would have then filed a grievance on a white-collar employee taking their work away while working out of their classification.  And by sending it without the proper postage, he would have likely violated company policy, which would work against him in any grievance proceedings.

 

You noticed that the postage was long before USPS was taken over by a private UNIONIZED concern.  They announced today that postage is going up again in January.

 

My uncle was very pro-union and I was the opposite.  Can you tell?  Every time I complained about having to cover for people with 19 years of seniority and a union rules book hanging out of their pocket, he would tell me that if it wasn't for the unions, I would be making $2.00 an hour.  I reminded him that a load of bread wouldn't cost anywhere near the price it did at the time.

 

By the way, you do notice that he was more than willing to send you a "non-QSL" on the station's six cents, right?

 

Mike Hawkins

texas4421 <texas4421@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

 

 

 

 

Just a thought about the past.

 

WHAT COUNTS AS A QSL?

 

Tonight, as I was digging thought old QSL's I have receive from the past, from broadcast band stations, I ran across a letter from WCFL-1000 in Chicago. The envelope was post mark -- 15 Jan 1968, with a 6 cents stamp. The outside of the cover has written on it, "WCFL, the voice of labor." At that time WCFL was run by labor unions of Chicago.

 

The letter is in a form of a memo, and is signed by Phil Harper, Director of Engineering.  This memo said,

 

"We will gladly send you our QSL card, thanks for the excellent reception report.

However, I must ask you to denda stamped self-addressed envelope (6 cents) to:"

The memo goes on to give an address to send a 6 cent stamp to.

 

This character wasted time and postage to tell me that I needed to send him postage so he could send me a QSL. The envelope is a large cover with this small piece of paper in it.

 

So a few questions arise here.

1. Is this letter good enough to count as a QSL, since the sender does acknowledge I did send him a  'excellent' report? By using

the word 'excellent' would indicate it was correct. I had never noticed this until this moment. I had, over all these years, just assumed it was a conformation.  I never sent him the postage and never received a printed QSL. And it's obvious it's a little late to do so at this time, since WCFL is no longer.

 

2. Was/is this typical of the way a union works and treats it's employee's? Wasting time and money to gig someone over 6 cents.

 

3. Not a bad price for postage, was it.

 

Just a thought to pass on to the group.

 

Willis, WB5KHD

Old Fort, TN

 

 

 

 

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