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A lot of people have been asking me "where are my TI cards, i signed up long ago for them"...
well, i wait until i hit a certain number of people queued up before i will do anything about them, the number in case is around 50. It takes me around 3 hours to pull the data down, clean out the data (amazing how many people put their email address as their mailing address), go through MS Word to do the envelopes, then count out the cards, pack them up, apply postage, and fianlly, mail them out.Needless to say, this is not something i look forward to doing on a constant basis, so if you get in the queue, then you will get them.. but when i have a chance to do all that prepping required.....
on top of that, every 100 members i send cards to cost a tad more than $100 to fill those requests, so sometimes money is an issue.....
anyways, just ordered 1000 more (i have a few hundred of the previous design left, those will go out to whoever is in line by the end of the week on a first come, first served basis), the "new" design will look like this:
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Note that i added a spot to write in your username, that way the prospective signee knows how left it behind...... the design isn't set in stone, i just felt like getting the run a little more "jazzed up"... i'd still like to do custom cards with the TI logo, but i am already plopping down $45 for a 1000 of these "free" cards from vistaprint.com... but down the road, who knows.....
anyways, patience to everyone emailing or PM-ing me in a panic about getting the cards..... i'm on it
well, i wait until i hit a certain number of people queued up before i will do anything about them, the number in case is around 50. It takes me around 3 hours to pull the data down, clean out the data (amazing how many people put their email address as their mailing address), go through MS Word to do the envelopes, then count out the cards, pack them up, apply postage, and fianlly, mail them out.Needless to say, this is not something i look forward to doing on a constant basis, so if you get in the queue, then you will get them.. but when i have a chance to do all that prepping required.....
on top of that, every 100 members i send cards to cost a tad more than $100 to fill those requests, so sometimes money is an issue.....
anyways, just ordered 1000 more (i have a few hundred of the previous design left, those will go out to whoever is in line by the end of the week on a first come, first served basis), the "new" design will look like this:
Note that i added a spot to write in your username, that way the prospective signee knows how left it behind...... the design isn't set in stone, i just felt like getting the run a little more "jazzed up"... i'd still like to do custom cards with the TI logo, but i am already plopping down $45 for a 1000 of these "free" cards from vistaprint.com... but down the road, who knows.....
anyways, patience to everyone emailing or PM-ing me in a panic about getting the cards..... i'm on it
