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BUREAU NEWS
October 1, 2008: All
cards for which we have funds and good addresses have been
mailed. We still have a lot of cards for which we have no
funds to use to send. These will be sent back after we've held
them for about 2 years.
September 15, 2008:
Cards are here (about 5,000) and being processed. You should see them in the
next few weeks.
September 3, 2008:
We've been advised that the national incoming bureau will be
shipping us 4,000 cards this week. We have about 1,000 we have
received directly as well. We expect cards should be in the
mail to you in early October.
August 14, 2008:
PayPal service charge has been reduced to 30cents per
transaction from 55 cents. The cost for a PayPal transaction
is now 2.9% plus 30 cents.
June 18, 2008: LoTW
(Log Book of The World). This is not directly a QSL bureau
subject but it is QSL related. You may want to use this free
service to confirm your contacts. Many DXers and contesters
use LoTW and more are signing up and adding their logs to the
system all the time. It's not as complex as it first appears.
Please feel free to contact VE6LB or VE6AX if you need help.
The information on LoTW can be found at: LoTW.
May 13, 2008: The
bureau has cleared all cards for clients that we have funds on
file for and there was addresses for in the Industry Canada
database http://www.callsign.ca/index_en.php
. We still get some cards back as "unknown" or
"moved" since the IC database has not been updated
by you. We have also returned to the sender all cards for
which we could not find a listed address. Rich, VE6AX, did
name and Google searches to see if he could find a home for
these cards before returning them. In some cases he found a
call change but in most cases, we did not have funds on file
anyway. Those cards are being held until he does a major
"return to sender" clearing. Please remember that
the bureau only holds unclaimed card for one year. So far
we've held them longer but they are starting to pile up. The
DO YOU HAVE
CARDS
page has been updated as well. We
would expect the next shipment from the national incoming
bureau in the fall.
April 7, 2008: Your
bureau has received a large shipment of cards. We have started
to process these cards and expect to ship cards to you, our
clients, over the next 4 weeks. We continue to receive
significant volumes of cards for folks that do not have
postage funds on file. We hate to send these back to the
sender but have little choice after storing them for a year or
more. Please check: YOU HAVE
CARDS If you have cards and want them, please
send funds (or use PayPal). If you see cards for someone you
know, please let them know.
December 14, 2007: The
bureau has been cleared and all card sent to those clients who
had sufficient funds. November 14, 2007: You
can now send us funds by PayPal www.paypal.com
(send Money) to telwest@telusplanet.net (2.9%
plus 55
cent PayPal service charge).
November 14, 2007: We have
received a significant shipment of cards from the national
incoming bureau and will be sorting and mailing these over the
next few weeks. This will also be a "year end
clearing" and we will send even one card if you have
funds.
October 23, 2007: The
latest is that the National Incoming folks will ship us cards
in the next week or so. Our current forecast is you should see
cards by the end of November.
October
1, 2007: We
have been advised by the national incoming bureau that volumes
of cards have been quite low and we should now expect a
shipment sometime in October. As soon as we get them, work
will start to get them to you.
July 25, 2007:
The
bureau clearing was completed as of early June. We are not
expecting another clearing until the September time frame.
May 17, 2007:
The
clearing of the significant number of cards that we can’t
deliver is under way Our notice brought results and many cards
found their home.
We
are currently returning cards to the sender for calls that are
no longer in the Industry Canada database and we don’t know
who they once belonged to. These are cards that have been
sitting in the Bureau for over one year.
We
also have cards for legitimate calls, but the amateur does not
have funds in their account or their address in the Industry
Canada database is wrong (mailed once and returned) so we can
not mail them out. We will keep these for approximately one
more year before we return them to the sender.
Check
our "DO YOU HAVE CARDS”
page to see if there are any cards for you – or any for
someone you know.
The
clearing process is continuing. Please pass the word on to
anyone you think may be affected that time for claiming these
cards is running out
May 11, 2007: Rich,
VE6AX, advises that he has received about 4,000 card from the
national incoming bureau (and some direct). Once sorted and
distributed to the letter managers, they should be appearing
in mail boxes by the end on the month.
January 1, 2007: Your
bureau has completed it's "year end clearance". All
cards for clients (even one) that had sufficient funds and
good IC addresses have been mailed. We would expect more cards
in the March/April timeframe.
December 6, 2006: Your
bureau has receive about 6,500 cards recently. Sorting is in
progress and cards should be in in the mail towards the end of
the month.
September 13, 2006: All
bureau cards have been sent to clients that had sufficient
fund with the bureau. We still have about 600 calls with
cards on file with no funds or bad addresses. At the end of
this year we intend to clear these undeliverable cards back to
the senders.
August 19, 2006:
Cards have been received and now being sent out.
July 24, 2006: The
national incoming bureau has advised they have shipped us a
new batch of card. We would expect to send cards to clients
with funds in August.
June 22, 2006: The WEB
page for "cards with no homes" has been updated. We
have removed most cards from our files where the calls don't
have IC addresses. We will hold these cards until the end of
2007 and then return them to the sender if we haven't found a
delivery route for them.
May 29, 2006: All cards
from the recent clearing have been mailed. The "have you
got cards?" WEB page will be updated shortly.
May 3, 2006: Your bureau
has received about 7,000 card from the national incoming
folks. Sorting in underway and distribution should start in
the next few weeks.
April 9, 2006: The latest
from the National incoming bureau is that we should receive
cards here in early May. They tell us that the volume of
incoming cards has been low.
March 11, 2006: Your
bureau is expecting a shipment from the national incoming
bureau in early April. We will be sorting and sending cards to
you shortly afterwards. The bureau currently has very few
cards for those who have funds and good addresses.
February 12, 2006: We have
spent considerable time cleaning up the data base. We have
pulled all cards for which we can't find a current IC address.
We are sure many of these card belong to hams with new calls
but we have no way of cross referencing these calls. If you've
changed your call, please let us know your old and new call so
we can update our DataBase. The cards with no/low funds and no/wrong
address page has been updated.
January 22, 2006: Your
bureau has sent out all the cards we can (valid IC addresses
and having funds).
January 13, 2006: Your
incoming bureau received about 3,500 cards this week. These
are being process and should be in the mail shortly. Once the
mailing is complete the "do you have cards" page
will be updated.
December 6, 2005: A
"shotgun" email has been sent to all clients that
don't have sufficient funds or have had mail returned using
"their call"@rac.ca.
November
28, 2005: All cards for which we had funds on file
have been mailed. The "Do You Have Cards" page has
been updated.
November
13, 2005: After a successful distribution of many
cards at the Calgary Flea Market, your QSL bureau is now in
the process of clearing all cards, regardless of the volume,
where our clients have funds. In the future, we will stick to
our 5 card minimum shipment (unless told otherwise). We expect the next major clearing
will be early in 2006.
August
11, 2005: All backlog cards should be in the mail in
the next few days. We will start to work on cards returned by
Canada Post for bad addresses from the Summer 2004 clearing
funded by CARA to see if we can find homes for these cards.
There are a lot! Please update your address with Industry
Canada-that's our only source of mailing information. Address
change link.
The next major bureau clearing is
expected in the October time frame.
July
30, 2005: All bureau cards and assets where transferred
to Calgary.
First letter sorting has been completed on about 75 lbs. of
cards and distributed to the letter managers. Cards are being
processed now and you should see cards in your mail shortly.
The objective is to clear the backlog so you may see multiple
mailings and lack of co-ordinate mailings of multiple calls
batches. We will try to batch more efficiently in the future. We
are seeing a lot of cards with no funds. See the side bar.
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