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Re: membership
Robert,
I believe your membership reminder is on the front of every AKA BNL.
It is very easy to overlook I guess, but I don't think we should fault the AKA
for not sending out additional reminders. I think one has too sort of remind
yourself every time we get a copy of the BNL.
George
RuevenM at aol_com wrote:
> 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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