[Psml] FW: Barriers to Registration

[T.W. Cook]

Well, it depends on what you think you volunteered for.  I see two options:
a) You volunteered to spend time and do projects with a small clique of
friends, without the distraction of strangers wandering in and trying to
join your group

b) You volunteered to try to help the public learn about boating, be safer,
and ideally do it while joining an exciting, lively, ever growing squadron.

For plan A, yup, no need to be taking calls or emails from the unwashed
masses who might want to learn about boating. Let them go take classes from
CGAUX or the state parks & wildlife or someone willing to hassle with them.
  But if you signed up for plan B, then you'd be excited to have the phone
ring late some night with someone who just got a boat, wants to try to
figure out how to do things right, looking for like-minded people who could
help them out. You'd be so excited that you'd be happy to share your email
and phone number with anyone that might be interested.

If you really don't want to be bothered by being contacted by potential new
members, that's your right, but if the rest of your squadron has the same
attitude then its membership trend is pretty easy to predict!

Regards,
T.W. Cook, Austin

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:50 PM, John & Judy Gill <jjgill at twojscom.com>wrote:

> What ever happened to the premiss that USPS is/was an all volunteer
> organization.  Now we are expected to publish our eMail address,
> phone numbers, etc. to the general public.  Also let the "customer"
> tell us what they want, where they want it and how much they are
> willing to pay???  FORCE members to "adapt" to the public's
> preference!!!  USPS officers and instructors work hard and donate
> their time and talents -- they should be respected and not be forced
> to compromise their privacy or communicate using a student's
> preferred media.
>
> John
>
>
>
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