buying stamps to return from the US?

[erastes]

help!!

How do i buy stamps to get an acknowledgement from a editor?

"Authors outside the United States should send disposable manuscripts with a
business sized SAE and proper US postage. US postage can be purchased online
at usps.com from anywhere in the world. No IRCs, please"

How do I know the correct postage? *confused* I'm unlikely to send an IRC
as I wouldn't know an IRC if it bit me.

Comments

[rwday.livejournal.com]

IRC is International Reply Coupon - that's what we here are generally asked to send as return postage when we submit to foreign markets.

What's the deadline? I can send you some stamps if you can't get them any other way.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

it's the 15th I think. I'll look into the usps site, and see if they take debit cards. If not, I'll send you some dollars. I've queried them, they say "hard copy only" but I batted puppy eyes at them and begged the UK card. We'll see. Thank hun.

xxx