The American Alpine Club E-News: July 2003

Dear Members,

The 2003 issues of The American Alpine Journal and Accidents in North American Mountaineering are at the printers, and we anticipate they will be shipped to our mail house within the next few weeks. If all goes well, we plan to have them arriving in members' mail boxes by early August.

Producing and mailing these membership publications is one of the most expensive things we do each year. To save cost and keep membership dues as low as possible, we send both membership books together and mail them out by bulk rate. The drawback is that bulk mail delivery times can vary substantially throughout the country. There also is the potential that one of the books, if printed substantially earlier than the other, may be on sale in local shops before you receive your copy. So that your books arrive in the best possible shape, this year we have upgraded to folded cardboard packaging. We hope it makes a difference and cuts down on the number of books that get lost in the mail due to failed packaging.

Please help us reduce mailing costs, administrative hassles and delivery times by ensuring that your address is up to date in our membership database. If you have moved recently, please send your current mailing address information to Jason Manke, our membership services coordinator, at mailto:jmanke@americanalpineclub.org.

Remember that the Journal and Accidents are sent to members who are current as of August 1 each year. If your membership has lapsed (or will lapse in the next few weeks), be sure to renew your membership. You can do so online at www.americanalpineclub.org.

Your summer issue of The American Alpine News will be mailed separately in early July so that there is no delay in learning about important Club activities and events.

Happy climbing (and reading)!

Lloyd Athearn

mailto:lathearn@americanalpineclub.org

Managing Editor

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E-NEWS POLICIES

In order to protect the interests of our subscribers, we have established the following E-News policies:

The AAC office in Golden is the only source of outgoing messages to subscribers; recipients cannot respond to or initiate messages to the list.

The AAC will not sell member e-mail addresses to anyone for any purpose and will have no commercial advertising of any kind in E-News.

The E-News focuses on timely and important news of interest to members worldwide.

Send comments, suggestions or news items to mailto:lathearn@americanalpineclub.org.