05/30/2026
** IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM THE GRAND AERIE **
Brothers & Sisters,
As many of you know, in July, we will be migrating to having hard membership cards for all members. Following the mass drop of delinquent members on July 11, the Grand Aerie will be sending a list of all members in good standing to the company who will do the printing and fulfillment of these cards.
They will be printing and mailing them throughout the month of July. Following that initial run, we will be submitting weekly uploads of information for new and re-enrolled members. When Secretaries add new initiated members in MMS, their card information will be sent to the printer in the following week’s data upload. These will be scheduled to upload on Monday mornings, so any work you do on the weekend would reflect in that week’s data upload. Secretaries will no longer be responsible for printing and distributing cards themselves.
The cost of the hard cards is being absorbed by the Grand Aerie as promised when the Per-Capita Tax increase took effect.
Each card will be mailed with the home Aerie or Auxiliary address as the return address, so if one of your members has an outdated address or the mail is deemed undeliverable, it will be returned to you so that you may contact them to pick the card up in person and update their contact information in MMS.
We are currently working on arrangements for a door entry system Aeries can use in conjunction with the QR codes on each member’s hard card. More information on this will be released to ALL Secretaries once it is finalized. Costs associated with door entry systems would be the responsibility of the host Aerie.
For the 2026-2027 year, we will recognize both the yellow dues receipt and the hard card as official dues receipts to reduce any issues we may have resulting from outdated mailing addresses in our system. Starting with 2027-2028, only the hard card will be recognized.
We thank you for your support during this transition and we look forward to hearing your feedback as we refine this process.
Thank you!
