From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 00:53:29 EST
Isaac Penzev scripsit:
> Can you specify what are those I.R.C.? I've never heard about them, though
> I'd been working at a post office for 4 months a bit ago.
By international treaty, they are available at any post office of any
member of the Union Postale Universelle (which includes Ukraine and
the U.S.). The idea is that when you send a letter overseas and want
to pay for the reply postage, you typically can't get the recipient's
stamps for him or her to use. So you include an IPC instead, which
the recipient can exchange for sufficient local postage to send a 20 gm
letter by international airmail. In the U.S., such a letter costs $0.80,
so 7 IPCs are equivalent to $5.60.
What I didn't realize is how steep the mark-up is, though: in the
U.S. it's 118% (each coupon costs $1.75).
Here is what an IPC looks like: http://www.n6hb.org/s-a/irc-front.jpg
> And what about ordering money through Western Union network?
I don't think they will handle an amount as small as US$5.00.
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