Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I know someone that was a member of IR
It's not hard to get him to rant at length about RUSA, he refused to join for many years.
Me?
What I find annoying is the claim that communications were slow with IR in the 80/90's. Yes, there was no internet. They used the US post office. You got a couple newsletters. I got every brevet card back faster than nowadays, not that it matters. It often takes 2 years to get cards back now. You know what was really hard back then? Dealing with the French to get into PBP. What a paperwork ordeal it was and I am accustomed to bureaucracies. And paying in French Francs or whatever their currency was. I had to go into NYC for that. And the damned medical certificate. My point? Retrospectively applying today's standards to volunteer orgs 30 years ago is rather unfair. The world has really changed.
The volunteers who ran the brevets back then were just as nice as those today, just a lot fewer of them back then.