I admire people who produce wonderfully artistic QSL cards and fully understand why people like to send and receive them.
With many years of DXing and contesting I have received a LOT of qsl’s and diligently replied to them all to the best of my abilities. I must admit since I have laid off the contesting and taken up SOTA instead, the full bore flood of cards has reduced to a trickle and I am happy with that.
However a couple of years ago I looked at my for ever growing pile of shoe boxes full of these wonderful cards that I would never revisit and I sent all of them, over 120kg to the recycling. Now when I get cards I look at them, enjoy them, reply to them and then they regretfully get binned.
I do ask only send a card if you want a reply other wise please do not send one. I could never deny people to send me a card if that is their desire and I feel a bit rude saying please don’t but sometimes things just have to be said honestly.
