Have your Post Office Clerk go to USPS URL:
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/32html/32h-p.html

Have him/her read:
international reply coupon - A coupon that is exchangeable for postage
(representing the minimum postage on an unregistered air letter) at post
offices in member countries of the Universal Postal Union. The coupon is
sold by post offices worldwide.

Worked for me, after I reminded them that the USA was a member country of
the Universal Postal Union !! Hi Hi

All about postage at URL:
http://ac6v.com/callbooks.htm#SERV

And IRC's are now $1.75 -- see USPS Publication 51

Also many European QSL Managers are now accepting Euro's
--
73 From The Signal In The Noise
Caveat Lector Ya All
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wrote in message
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On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 11:59:29 GMT, "Dee D. Flint"
wrote:

If you receive an IRC, simply take it to any post office and buy
sufficient
postage to reply to the QSL.

If life were only that simple. The postmaster at the U.S. post office
where I live has been trying to figure out what IRC's are for about
a year now. He told me that if he ever does figure it out, he'll let
me exchange them for stamps. I got tired of waiting and sold them.

Many U.S. post offices are fine when it comes to buying IRC's but
when it comes to exchanging one for stamps, forget it......

73, Jim KH2D