I guess that a 15% return rate for cards that I sent to bureaus is about
right. (Even so, I send a card for every DX contact.) Return rate for
cards sent via a service or direct is about 70%.

That said, I just received cards for an important contact made in 1982
after several letters and (eventually, as the years went by) E-mail
messages. Some contacts are difficult to get confirmed.

Compared to using the outgoing and incoming bureaus, the electronic QSL
services seem expensive.

73 Mac N8TT

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J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
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