Dear Tom:
It would appear there has been a pricing oversight with O/S
Life Memberships. There is, however, little that can be done about
existing O/S Lifers.
Although it is important that the Life membership O/S rate be
changed. should it continue to be offered, my personal feeling is
that AIS should discontinue offering Life Membership of any kind as
an option, except, perhaps as an Honorary thing (such as to AIS
PResidents, although it wouldn't effect me since Bob and I have a
dual Life membership already.)
In reality, I believe we (AIS) can not afford Life Memberships
and few groups offer that plan as an option anymore. (One surely can
not subscribe to a magazine that way.)
I want to go on record that I am not in favor of "selling"
multiple triennials either. It absolutely hurts our financial flow
which is in serious need of closing, not opening, the flood gates.
In truth, I would rather entertain a discussion about ceasing
to offer Life Memberships. We would have to maintain the ones we
have, of course, but we would no longer make that a membership
option.
As far as I can see (and I discussed this with Bob) it will be
VERY difficult to request additional postage payment from our O/S
Lifers for our lack of insight to the future of postage rates and
production costs. To do that to them would mean it should be done to
ALL Life members, many of whom became Lifers at a ridiculous sum
compared to today's cost of production and interest rates for money
in restricted funds
That's my opinion -- how do you see it?
Jeanne
In a message dated 6/6/05 8:07:45 AM, GormleyGreenery writes:
The current dues schedule we have is below. There appears to be no
"surcharge for mailing" to overseas members as there is with Annual
and Triennial O/S memberships. There is nothing to that effect in
the MemSec files nor computer base "Type" designation. We current
have 358 Single Life Memberships with 32 of those overseas and 115
Dual Life Memberships with 2 of them overseas. Should we be
surcharging the O/S Life memberships for mailing?
Dues go up 4-1-05 to
Single Annual $25.00
Dual Annual $30.00
Single Triennial $60.00
Dual Triennial $75.00
Life Memberships are available.
Life Single: $450.00
Life Dual: $545.00
Senior Life (age 65+): 15% discount. (For Dual Senior Life, both
members must be 65 or older.) 15% Senior Discount applies only to
Life Membership.
Youth Rates (under Age 19)
Youth without Bulletin $5.00
Youth with Bulletin $9.00
Overseas:
Single Annual $30.00
Dual Annual $35.00
Single Triennial $65.00
Dual Triennial $80.00
Tom Gormley
Gormley Greenery
Cedar Hill, MO