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membership

Hi,

     Why does the AKA not fund the sending out of reminder cards when one's 
membership is due to be renewed? Every fish club, fish magazine and orchid 
association I am in sends at least one, if not two reminders. The AKA does 
not even bother to send an e mail which would be free, even though it 
requests mail addresses on joining. 
        I did not realize my membership fee was due. I missed the December 
BNL, but due to the erratic nature of publication I just let it go. Then 
January came and no BNL and then everyone started talking about the new JAKA 
and I had no JAKA. This was odd, as I am sure I did not receive the full 6 
issues (even counting the ones that cover 4-5 months sometimes) I was due for 
my last year's membership, so this last one should have been sent whether or 
not my membership expired. 
     It's a good thing I am a long time member of the AKA, as I doubt I would 
have rejoined had I only been a one or two year member. I understand that 
today is different, but Joe Ricco used to get a TYPED -- as on a typewritter 
-- issue of KILLIE NOTES, including a much bigger fish and egg listings, out 
around the first of the month -- 12 times a year. He used snail mail or the 
telephone -- no fax, cell phones, conferencing calls, e mail, word processor 
or whatever to receive the material he published. One could count on 
delivery. You paid your dues at the first of the year and if you joined 
anytime before June your dues would still be due the next January. If you 
joined after June, you paid a half year dues and rejoined the next January at 
a full year's price.  This kept the paper work on membership clean and one 
knew when to rejoin -- January, every year.
     I do not think it is too much to ask for the AKA to -- at the very least 
-- send out reminder cards or e mails, if the issue is cost. We might even 
keep more members.
    In the old days of the AKA, I never had problems of timing membership 
dues, ordering fish and getting sick or dead ones, publication committees 
loosing checks after not sending anything for over a year, magazines coming 
whenever and all the rest. Man times sure have changed.

Robert E.
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