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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by mjevans on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:12AM (#43783049)
Offhand, I don't think I've ever mailed an International letter or package.

Is return postage something that, normally, my local post office would help me with? E.G. do they have some method of marking or adding post to a package that would be accepted globally (or at least within the destination country)?

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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by Symbiote on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:31AM (#43783283)
That's the International Reply Coupon mentioned in the article, but it's not supported by all countries.

I think I've sent far more international letters and parcels than domestic. Christmas cards for elderly relatives in the country I was born in, and postcards when I travelled abroad.

Some obscure things I sold on eBay were mostly sent abroad.

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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by mjevans on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:26PM (#43786488)
"""

United Kingdom

The Royal Mail stopped selling IRCs on 31 December 2011[26] due to a lack of demand. United States

The United States Postal Service stopped selling international reply coupons on 27 January 2013.[27]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reply_coupon#Uni...

That explains why I was confounded in my efforts to search within USPS results.

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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by ahazred8ta on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:33AM (#43783303)
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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by Lex-2008 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:39AM (#43783386)
yep, article also mentions them:

> I was disappointed to find out that the UK’s Royal Mail discontinued international reply coupons in 2011. The only alternative that I could think of was to buy some US stamps.

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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by dl9999 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:52PM (#43785515)
I send $3 U.S. with QSL (ham radio) cards. It seems like everybody is able to convert that to local currency to cover postage.
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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by relistan on Friday April 25, 2025 @03:06AM (#43790990)
I send international reply coupons with QSL cards. They no longer sell them in Ireland, where I live, but you can still order them from Swiss Post, online. They work everywhere. They mail them to you for free.

https://shop.post.ch/en/packing-sending/sending-letters/regi...

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