My membership is due in September. They need 6-7 months to process it??
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Why is the NRA sending me a renewal notice?
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I contacted them about this and promotional mailings. This is their response:
"We send out notices in the fashion that we do because of our organizational structure.
Once a Member has had five consecutive years of Membership they accrue voting rights.
We send out the notices because if a Member is late renewing, they lose these voting rights.
Many Members feel that it is very important to be involved in making the decisions about who
runs their NRA. We do understand that some Members do not wish to receive the amount of
renewals that are sent to them. We do have the ability to limit renewal notices, which I have
taken the liberty of doing for you. You will receive three the year your Membership is set to expire.
One will arrive the month before your membership expires, one the month it expires, and one the
month after depending on when we receive your payment. I cannot limit your notices so that you
only receive one.
We updated your membership profile and placed you on the DO NOT PROMOTE list.
This will greatly reduce the amount of all correspondence you receive. However, it will not
eliminate all correspondence. If a company administers a member benefit, they will have limited
access to your membership information. On occasion, they might send you something that the NRA
can not intercept or stop. We can not guarantee that you will receive no correspondence in the
future. However, you will see most if not all additional correspondence stop arriving over the
next several weeks.
Thank you very much for your support and please feel free to contact us
if you ever need anything else!
Best Regards,
Ken
NRA Member Communications
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, VA 22030
NRA
E-mail: [email protected]"
"We send out notices in the fashion that we do because of our organizational structure.
Once a Member has had five consecutive years of Membership they accrue voting rights.
We send out the notices because if a Member is late renewing, they lose these voting rights.
Many Members feel that it is very important to be involved in making the decisions about who
runs their NRA. We do understand that some Members do not wish to receive the amount of
renewals that are sent to them. We do have the ability to limit renewal notices, which I have
taken the liberty of doing for you. You will receive three the year your Membership is set to expire.
One will arrive the month before your membership expires, one the month it expires, and one the
month after depending on when we receive your payment. I cannot limit your notices so that you
only receive one.
We updated your membership profile and placed you on the DO NOT PROMOTE list.
This will greatly reduce the amount of all correspondence you receive. However, it will not
eliminate all correspondence. If a company administers a member benefit, they will have limited
access to your membership information. On occasion, they might send you something that the NRA
can not intercept or stop. We can not guarantee that you will receive no correspondence in the
future. However, you will see most if not all additional correspondence stop arriving over the
next several weeks.
Thank you very much for your support and please feel free to contact us
if you ever need anything else!
Best Regards,
Ken
NRA Member Communications
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, VA 22030
NRA
E-mail: [email protected]"
Maximumbob54
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I guess I need to get on their do not promote list. They send me more **** than I want. I have a dvd, coin, and endless insurance offers, adds, and other trash. I still need to send make the dvd. That's as bad as Columbia House. I didn't join for this. I'm more than a little iffy about them now. But they are the loudest voice that I know of for our gun ownership rights, so I'm trying to put up with it.
They are not a perfect organization, but I wouldn't sweat the small stuff.
Fishslayer
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I got a renweal notice about two weeks after I joined.
OP
I got off the promotional stuff a while back, this is like getting magazine subscription, some were sending them a year ahead and multiple times if your not careful you could be paid up for 10 years (on magazines). I canceled them all.
I fully intend to renew, just wondering why so early. Guess they do not want anyone to drop off.
I fully intend to renew, just wondering why so early. Guess they do not want anyone to drop off.
sherrill15
Member
I get about three of these a month. What a waste of money.
I get maybe five or six pieces of mail per year, including renewal notices. I know where my trash can is, so no problem.
I get maybe four or five phone calls per year. I know how to interrupt, say, "I'm sorry, but I don't have time to talk now," so no problem there, either.
I don't know why I do not get the 36 pieces of mail per year like sherrill15 gets. I have never asked to be put on a 'do not promote' or 'do not solicit' list. I guess they must just know I am broke most of the time.
I get maybe four or five phone calls per year. I know how to interrupt, say, "I'm sorry, but I don't have time to talk now," so no problem there, either.
I don't know why I do not get the 36 pieces of mail per year like sherrill15 gets. I have never asked to be put on a 'do not promote' or 'do not solicit' list. I guess they must just know I am broke most of the time.
For the most part, it is called "seeding", they send out say 100,000 notices and hope to get 10 % back, return, keep doing this over and over, and yes, it does "add up", BUT to some folks it is a nuisance, and yes, would seem to be costly, but it works...still the "best bang for the buck...." at least as a "Member", you do have the right to complain.......
Stevens
Member
Why do people complain............it's sooooo simple to just throw the notice in the trash.
The NRA is 1000% more successful at promoting and defending our gun rights than any other organzation out there and people "nit pick" about getting a few things in the mail from them............you should be grateful they are there to stand up to the politicians and gun grabbing activists that want to take your guns. Other-wise you would be on the sewing & knitting forum instead of enjoying this S&W forum. Just throw the dad-gum notice in the trash and quit griping about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK that's my rant.
Don
The NRA is 1000% more successful at promoting and defending our gun rights than any other organzation out there and people "nit pick" about getting a few things in the mail from them............you should be grateful they are there to stand up to the politicians and gun grabbing activists that want to take your guns. Other-wise you would be on the sewing & knitting forum instead of enjoying this S&W forum. Just throw the dad-gum notice in the trash and quit griping about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK that's my rant.
Don
Iggy has it right. I went for Life Member in 1959. Paid $12.50 every 3 months till the $100 bucks was paid. Just went Endowment a couple years ago. Go life now, it's the best way.
MR. IHC
US Veteran
i've had them send me renewals years ahead of time,(i always go with 5 year intervals). i just keep track of when it is actually up and then send it in. works for me...
JcMack
Member
I went the life member approach about 20 yrs. ago. I've since had them shut off mailings and magazines. I signed up for the info/alerts via e mail which are very informative as to whats going on with gun legislation. 20 yrs. ago the NRA seemed to have serious financial problems. I wonder where they stand today.
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Maximumbob54
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I'm on the life member quarterly payment plan. I would much prefer to just pay them and they use that money to keep the second amendment in print and in my favor. They could save some of that money if they didn't send all the trash and keep trying to get me to buy more garbage. That is my only issue.
JcMack
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I'm pretty sure there's a payoff if you want to quit the quarterly plan. You can have them shut off most mailings and phones calls.
Maximumbob54
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Whoa, like if for some reason I decided to quit I would have to pay them off still??? Since when did they get like DirectTV??? I hope I'm reading that wrong, or I really am about to get mad.
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