End of the road for the International Reply Coupon (IRC)

The International Reply Coupon or IRC was very much a part of amateur radio history for decades. If you wanted a QSL card from a station for a particular contact that you had made then the idea was that you would send them an envelope containing a self-addressed envelope, your QSL card and an IRC to pay for the return postage. Some people preferred to use $1 notes but they were more prone to…