Response International Coupons - STUCK

[kirstie_nz]

Hi Everyone,

I am hoping someone can help me.

I am from New Zealand and our Post Shop used to sell the 'Response International Coupons' to send out with mail so that the person you are sending it to can post back to you at your cost. But these are no longer available. And they are perfect for putting with my Fan Biz Mail (for signed photos to come back to me).

Now I am STUCK. As I cannot locate them anywhere :-(

I was told that the USA have now also stopped doing them - is that true?

How can I send out photos to celebs without one, they will most likely not send back right?

Thanks

Kirstie

[admin]

Hi

You can purchase your US stamps here: http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8 ... T7RTF2XDUJ

As of January 27, 2013, the U.S. Postal Service no longer sells international reply coupons. However, coupons previously sold by the U.S. Postal Service can still be used or exchanged (see 381.2).

http://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immc3_020.htm

Fanmail

[kimmylee]

You can also buy US stamps from USPS via their official eBay store.

For other methods please browse this section of the forum, as many have asked question about International return postage (and gotten answers) before.

[WaltG123]

Hi

You can purchase your US stamps here: http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8 ... T7RTF2XDUJ

As of January 27, 2013, the U.S. Postal Service no longer sells international reply coupons. However, coupons previously sold by the U.S. Postal Service can still be used or exchanged (see 381.2).

http://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immc3_020.htm

Fanmail

To anyone reading this, don't count on your recipient being able to redeem any IRCs you may have stockpiled. The USPS these days is not so much an entity as it is an umbrella over a group of individuals, none of whom seem to have the same training but insist that theirs is the right way.

While the USPS website may say that they can be redeemed, the website doesn't work the counter--individual employees do. And the odds are that they've never heard of or seen these coupons before & will refuse the person attempting to redeem them. You find plenty of examples of that on this forum & even more on the web at large.

The "official word" is useless when dealing with these people & I wish admin wouldn't mislead members by posting it as though it holds meaning.