BROCHURE MAILING LIST


The 2008 Rochester Hamfest brochure was mailed to over 30,000 people in the U.S.A. early in March, 2008.  For a fee, equivalent to first class postage, 41 cents each (soon to be 42 cents), the U.S. Postal Service returns undelivered copies to us.  The Postal Service will not forward your brochure to a new address.  The brochure is mailed using the postal service "standard mail" (formerly called third class.)  Undelivered "standard mail" is never forwarded.

Approximately ten percent of our mailing is returned.  Some of the returned copies will give a new address.  We update our database with the new address for the next mailing.  Another copy of the current brochure is not automatically mailed.  A copy of the 2008 brochure is on this web site at www.rochesterhamfest.org/hfbroch8.pdf.

The balance of the returned copies are marked:


Forwarding Order Expired
Moved.  Left no address.
Not deliverable as addressed.  Unable to forward.
Attempted.  Not known.
Unclaimed.
Refused.
No such street number.
Insufficient address.
No mail receptacle.
Box closed no order.
Temporarily away.

The U.S. Postal Service advises:
17% of Americans change addresses annually.
43 million people move each year.
One out of every six families move each year.

If you did not receive your copy of the 2007 brochure, have recently moved, or perhaps been assigned a new mailing address, please be kind enough to send an email message to brochure@rochesterhamfest.org with your new address.

If you have received your brochure with an incorrect address on the mailing label, we would appreciate having your new address.  If you have a new call, tell us what it is so we may update our information.

Your name on our mailing list assures you a copy of future Hamfest brochures.  The list is never sold or released to anyone.  Our list is not mixed or merged with other lists -- including FCC's.  Silent key names are removed when brochures are returned marked "deceased" or when a family member writes to tell us.

This is the FCC Rule concerning your mailing address:

§97.23 Mailing address.
Each license grant must show the grantee’s correct name and mailing address.  The mailing address must be in an area where the amateur service is regulated by the FCC and where the grantee can receive mail delivery by the United States Postal Service.  Revocation of the station license or suspension of the operator license may result when correspondence from the FCC is returned as undeliverable because the grantee failed to provide the correct mailing address.

Keep the FCC informed when you have a change of address.  Tell the hamfest too, so you will continue to receive your mailing each year.

NOTE: Because of high postal rates for international mail, the brochure is no longer mailed to Canadian and other international addresses.  All the information contained in the brochure appears on this web site.  To view the brochure as a .pdf file, click here.


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