# How to send SASE to UK from US? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 14, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137 "2015-07-14T13:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MutantMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@MutantMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MutantMike)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/1 "2015-07-14T13:36:38Z")
Sending auto requests to the UK, how do I pay for return postage? ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/2 "2015-07-14T14:00:27Z")
Assuming you can’t by UK stamps someplace, I think the only thing you can do is send an international reply coupon. > **[International reply coupon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reply_coupon)** > > An international reply coupon (IRC) is a coupon that can be exchanged for one or more postage stamps representing the minimum postage for an unregistered priority airmail letter of up to twenty grams sent to another Universal Postal Union (UPU) member country. IRCs are accepted by all UPU member countries. > UPU member postal services are obliged to exchange an IRC for postage, but are not obliged to sell them. > The purpose of the IRC is to allow a person to send someone in another country a let... ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/3 "2015-07-14T14:12:58Z")
The USPS doesn’t sell international reply coupons any more. ---
**Author:** ![lalaith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@lalaith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalaith)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/4 "2015-07-14T14:57:45Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The USPS doesn’t sell international reply coupons any more. Damn. They don’t. Just Googled it. Stopped in 2013. So, really, what are you supposed to do? Send an international money order? (Which the [USPS still sells](https://www.usps.com/international/money-transfers.htm).) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/5 "2015-07-14T15:22:25Z")
Perhaps a stamp dealer could sell you recent UK stamps. (They would cost more than face value, but still.) BTW, the OP refers to “auto requests.” What is that? ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/6 "2015-07-14T15:25:31Z")
I don’t know if it works from abroad, but I can print my own stamp from Royal Mail’s own site. [http://www.royalmail.com/personal/sending-mail](http://www.royalmail.com/personal/sending-mail) If it does work, you could print it on to a self addressed envelope and solve the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Ornery\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/da6949/32.png) [@Ornery\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ornery_Bob)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/7 "2015-07-14T16:06:53Z")
> [@MutantMike](#): > > Sending auto requests to the UK, how do I pay for return postage? Buy some pound notes and include a couple with the request and the envelope. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/8 "2015-07-14T17:40:35Z")
I would guess an “auto request” is an “autograph request” Note the International Money Order is accepted in very few countries–and NOT in the UK: Albania Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados 1 Belize Bolivia 2 British Virgin Islands Canada Cape Verde 2 Dominica Dominican Republic 2 Ecuador 2 El Salvador ($500) Grenada Guinea 2 Guyana ($500) Honduras 2 Jamaica 3 Japan 4 Mali 2 Montserrat Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sierra Leone 2 Trinidad and Tobago 3 [http://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immc3\_018.htm](http://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immc3_018.htm) Anyway you don’t want something which is a pain to handle for the recipient. So I would agree with a mailing label and a couple pound notes. ---
**Author:** ![Bones\_Daley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@Bones\_Daley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bones_Daley)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/9 "2015-07-14T17:54:24Z")
Paying by Paypal, and getting the recipient to print a Paypal label is by far the most hassle-free method for both parties. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/10 "2015-07-14T20:49:03Z")
> [@Bones\_Daley](#): > > Paying by Paypal, and getting the recipient to print a Paypal label is by far the most hassle-free method for both parties. Not if one or both parties don’t have or want a PayPal account. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/11 "2015-07-14T21:04:51Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Perhaps a stamp dealer could sell you recent UK stamps. (They would cost more than face value, but still.) > > BTW, the OP refers to “auto requests.” What is that? He’s ordering a Bentley, and wants it mailed to him in the US by return postage. That’s his difficulty – it’s a whole lot of postage stamps to deal with. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/12 "2015-07-14T22:35:15Z")
> [@Ornery\_Bob](#): > > Buy some pound notes and include a couple with the request and the envelope. If it’s England or Wales, they don’t have pound notes: the smallest notes are five pounds. Scotland does have one-pound notes, but they might be hard to buy in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/13 "2015-07-14T22:41:40Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > If it’s England or Wales, they don’t have pound notes: the smallest notes are five pounds. Scotland does have one-pound notes, but they might be hard to buy in the US. One-pound notes are rare even in Scotland - only RBS still prints them - but they don’t seem to print very many, and ATMs don’t dispense them. I think I’ve seen one in my change this year? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-send-sase-to-uk-from-us/725137/14 "2015-07-14T22:46:08Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > I don’t know if it works from abroad, but I can print my own stamp from Royal Mail’s own site. [http://www.royalmail.com/personal/sending-mail](http://www.royalmail.com/personal/sending-mail) I tried this, without quite completing the process. It seemed to be possible to use it even with an IP address clearly in the US.