On Jun 25, 1:05?pm, Michael Coslo wrote:
AF6AY wrote:
and was - essentially - shined off. Since I had already joined by my
own volition, TS, the 'free offer' doesn't apply to me. Am I happy
with that? No. Can I do anything about it? No.

It is also a great example of how giving something away is never ever a
good idea. There has been more anger generated over the years by free
offers that probably anything else. 8^(

That was NOT my irritant. Here were three separate office groups
at Newington (VEC, Fulfillment, Membership) NOT in apparent
communications with one another. Membership was the slowest;
based on a five-day worst-case surface mailing diagonally across
the contiguous USA, they were still lagging the VEC section by a
week. Here I was, a new member, joining of my own volition, and
they don't seem to appreciate that.

If the office staff can make such mistakes with one member, what
could they do to 152 thousand others? What of bigger issues such
as "Regulation by Bandwidth" proposal? [which was withdrawn]

AF6AY