smokinrider wrote:
davidscott wrote:
I'm afraid I still don't get the desire to have a thick lump of plastic, we don't have windscreens to clean. I suppose they may be handy as a prop stand base.
What is the comparative cost of the pop out plasticised 'cards' that I assume we can print ourselves?
If the sticker goes out with a renewal amd they survive being nailed to a bike in most, if not all, comditions, I am sure they would last a year in a wallet.
Then I guess you never will. And it's hardly a thick lump of plastic by any stretch of the imagination.
I don't use a wallet so a crappy piece of paper won't last me 5 minutes. A bit like the new fade or fall off after 5 minutes stickers.
As for the comparative costs. 1) I don't join an organisation and expect to print the card myself, but I assume print ourselves means printed by the trf.
2) the cost between paper or plastic is going to be the cost of the card which is currently £15 per 100 so 15p.
Bottom line is someone on the board can say 100% what printing 4000 cards cost 2015-2016 and therefore can calculate what's been saved by the current system 2016-2017
We can then see if we are being overcharged by the provider and what the real savings are compared to the ill feeling it's generated by the current system.
So come on bean counters tell us the true figures.
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Calm down
No-one has just one plastic card. Thick ones mount up to a thick wodge and area a nuisance.
Do you stuff a couple of fivers in a back pocket then? I presume you are not the queen and do carry cash and debit/credit cards, recovery organisation etc etc so the card(s) must also go somewhere
I didn't mean print my own - 'ourselves' was the TRF - they would come out with the renewal acknowledgement and sticker (however crappy it might be but mine has been ok so far).
But is it really so bad to print one card yourself if we had to? It wouldn't bother me.
We're all trying to save admin costs here and £2k is £2k whatever the income or turnover.
If there had never been a thick plastic card, would anyone have been demanding them over and above a thinner plasticised one?
Maybe you could glue it to an out of date credit card