Bureau Posting February 10th 2018

QSL cards have been posted to 86 World Bureaus – Saturday 10th February 2018

This mailing is a joint mailing between M0OXO Charles, M0URX Tim & M0SDV Jamie.

I would very much appreciate feedback from you when the QSL cards start arriving at World Bureaus or received by hams around the world? This feedback will be added to our data below.

This mailing features cards from the recent expeditions, VE3RZ/VP9, PZ5V, 4S7AYG, V47FWX, MU/ON4ANN also YOTA month of December and GB17YOTA. The parcels are sent by Priority Business Mail to get to the Bureaus quickly.

Total amount of QSL cards 20,274
Via M0URX 4,403
Via M0OXO 12,499
Via M0SDV 2,537
Via MD0CCE 61
Via G0RPA 463
Via G4IRN 52
Via YO6DDF 259

Total Weight 77.747g (gross weight includes packaging)

Total Cost £379.85 £4.86 per kg (Net weight excludes packaging)
Average postage cost 1.9 p per QSL card.
If anyone wishes to make a donation to the costs of bureau shipments, you can do when you request a QSL and use the donation facility on OQRS.

Each bureau is listed as package weight in grams

Andorra 7
Algeria
Argentina 125
Armenia 7
Aruba
Australia 190
Austria 1,090 OE7PGI Philipp reports receiving cards 28/04/2018
Belarus 240
Belgium 2,210
Barbados
Bosnia Herzegovina 230
Brazil 375
Bulgaria 540 LZ1OT Vlad reports package arrived 17th January.
Canada 535
Chile 21
China 18
Colombia 6 Letter returned 21/07/2018
Costa Rica
Croatia 1,390
Cuba
Cyprus 27
Czech Republic 2,320
Denmark 285
Dominican Republic
Ecuador 46
Estonia 82
Faroe Islands
Falkland Islands
Finland 680
France 2,850 F4HQO reports receiving cards on 25/03/2018
Germany 12,380
Georgia 7
Greece 730
Hong Kong
Hungary 1,420
Iceland 13
India 29
Indonesia 39
Italy 6,130
Ireland 136
Israel 112
Japan 12,980
Jordan
Kazakhstan 145
Kyrgyzstan
Kuwait 16
Latvia 170
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lithuania 185
Luxembourg 53
Macau
Macedonia 35g
Malta 24
Malaysia 15
Mexico 12
Moldova 69
Monaco
Mongolia 7
Namibia 11
Netherlands 1,420
New Caledonia
New Zealand 44
Norway 190
Oman
Panama 10
Paraguay 7
Peru
Philippines 8
Poland 3,420
Portugal 405
Qatar 11
Romania 225
Russian Fed 6,930
Saudi Arabia
Serbia 600
Singapore 14
Slovenia 1,180
Slovakia 1,050
South Africa 16
South Korea 53
Spain 3,560
Sri Lanka
Sweden 835
Switzerland 530
Taiwan 17
Tajikistan
Thailand 112
Tunisia
Turkey 27
United Arab Emirates
Ukraine 3,070 UT7UW Yuri reports receiving parecel 21/02/2018
United Kingdom
Uruguay 9
Venezuela 415 Service to Venezuela Suspended unable to get post to YV. Returmed 14/03/2018

USA
W0 – 440
W1 – 565
W2 – 560
W3 – 550
W4 – 445
WW4 – 340
W5 – 320
W6 – 215
W7 – 265
W8 – 370 N8DX reports packet arriving 20/02/2018 squashed but intact.
W9 – 565
WP3 – 55
WL7- 11
WH6 – 16
KP2 – 21

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