

It isn’t just QSL cards we mail out. Here is one of the Club periodicals that are shipped from here this week along with my usual weekly QSL postings. If your club needs a mailing manager drop me a line!
We have mailing solutions for your club or DXpediition.
H40WA Temotu Province DXpedition log has been uploaded to LoTW in full tonight.
H40WA OQRS
As the 2024 – 2025 financial tax year comes to an end, it is time to take a look at how our mailing facility has worked over the last year. Overall 25,517 items of mail were posted at a cost of £25,972.95. We post QSL Direct cards, bureau parcels and magazines using the various products as shown in the table below. With 3,419 less items posted this year, with Solar Cycle 25 this last 12 months providing much increased propagation on HF.
DX’pedition QSL costs are very competitive as always and we welcome talking to DX teams about mailing your QSL cards in the future.
The past 12 months though have been challenging as we continue to battle through the minefield of Worldwide Customs, and find our way through letter mailing solutions that are becoming less reliable around the world and more expensive, prices never go down!
While most people use OQRS (Thank you) we still get a number of incoming direct letters. The problem being is that most of the incoming letters do not include the correct QSL costs, because most fail to read either my QSL policy or the DXpedition QSL policy. This increases our costs further and also costs us time as we have to email to let people know that they failed to QSL correctly. My advice is use OQRS ONLY!
Enjoy your DX! We as a team promise to provide you with a QSL service that works for both the DX’er and the DXpedition Team.
31st March – QSL mailing today includes the Italian QSL Bureau parcel 2.7 kg being re posted to Italy. This time i removed the small value and declared Value zero as documents. I have not much hope that this will get through but all I can do is try.
Since this morning I have telephoned Royal Mail Business care, Royal Mail International, and HMRC Customs for advice, nobody has been able to tell me how to send documents with no value in a parcel. I really do think this is the end of Bureau cards. I would very much value the advice of a customs consultant on how to proceed from here.
March 29th – Italian QSL Bureau parcel returned again by Italian Customs!
The cost now for re sending Bureau parcels is becoming crazy! Surely enough is enough now.
I always like to have a look at the multi statistics charts that we have on the Bespoke OQRS for specific DXpeditions. In this case below for VU4AX the QSOs by Band worked by Amateur stations in the United Kingdom by region.
Predominantly a Belgium / Netherlands team you can also see great support from the fellow ON / PA hams following the team!
One of the statistics that we can produce, although I feel not appropriate to display here is the “Top 10 Dupe Stations” on VU4AX a Japanese station duped 20 times. This is one statistic NOT to be proud of, you should never dupe band mode slots for a DXpedition unless they ask you to.
Okay, so today i finally posted out the ZD7VJ QSL cards from Andy’s visit to St Helena in 2024. Thank you for your patience while the logs and QSL cards were sorted.
With today’s mailing, I have sent 1.2 kg of Bureau cards to REF the France QSL Bureau.
March 23rd – Thank you to the VU4AX team for the last log update. The log is now complete on OQRS.
I am am currently waiting for the last day of the VU4AX log, the re synced complete log and the ALL.TXT file for FT modes. The team are currently on their way home and are not yet able to get the information to me until they get home which is a long journey.
Of course i am aware that the log is not complete. WAIT! Do not email me. This will be updated when the log is complete. I was able to get an email from the team waiting for their flight at New Delhi and they report that they are safe.
No Busted / Missing calls will be done until i get the completed log.
Early Donors from the donation page are processed through OQRS daily with QSL population and LoTW uploaded by OQRS.
Please only request QSL cards at this time if all your QSO’s are showing. This will be uploaded to LoTW daily by OQRS.
Along with this weeks direct QSL mailing is a 1.1 kg parcel to the Netherlands QSL Bureau.