UK quattro Owners Club - Overseas Membership

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

Well, we got a decision.  Having spoken with Roger Galvin (membership 
secretary) we've settled on charging the same for overseas membership as for UK 
domestic membership.

This is GBP15 for the remainder of 1996, and GBP25 for the whole of 
eachsubsequent year.  The logic behind this is that the extra postage we pay on 
overseas mailings almost exactly balances the allowance (meagre though it is) 
for entertaining domestic members at meetings which would be inaccessible to 
overseas members.

So - GBP15 followed by GBP25, or GBP40 to cover you until the end of 1997 (16 
newsletters).

The crux is payment - we have deliberately kept the costs down, but this means 
our margin for bank charges, etc., is miniscule.  We can't afford, for example, 
to pay credit card commission.

There are two options.  Some individual or body might care to collect locally 
and send us a cheque in sterling for the correct amount, made out to the UK 
quattro Owners Club.  Even if the cheque is in sterling, we pay quite a 
considerable standing charge - enough to eliminate our margin if it's a "cheque 
per member". So collect two or three locally, and whack us a cheque.

If you want to pay individually, the best way is simply to buy UK banknotes to 
the right value at a local bank and mail them to the chairman, wrapped in a 
sheet or two of paper.  It sounds crude, but it's so cheap the risk is worth it:

               David Preece
               Chairman - UK quattro Owners Club
               Well Cottage
               Longley Green               
               Suckley
               Worcester
               WR6 5DU
 
While you're at it - enclose a note of sympathy.  David's treasured and 
pristine 20v was stolen from a club meeting on Monday night and used in a 
robbery.  Targetted theft of quattros has become a serious problem in the UK.

If you choose the cash route, send a note to "phil@sievers.com", my normal 
email id.  I can pass this to the membership secretary, giving us the second 
control on the cash in transit.  He doesn't have an email id or a fax machine, 
but he's only eight miles from me and I can get anything to him quickly.

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com   Fax +44 1536 723021   Phone +44 385 302803
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club