[nabs-l] A Problem That Needs To Be Put Out Here

[luke schwinck]

Hey All,
 
This is Luke Schwinck.  I am the treasurer of NABS and as previously stated by President Webster I am the Fundraising committee chair and responsible for this fundraiser.  I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that everyone has been experiencing.  Over the last two months we have tried to mail these flashdrives from two different parts of the country.  More often than not the drives are either returned to sender or delivered with the envelope having been ripped open and the drive either missing or severely damaged.  We have also attempted to pad the drives with newspaper during shipment, thinking that this may help the problem.  When that solution failed to rectify the issue I contacted the United States Postal Service to see why this is happening but have not yet received a response.  
 
Thank you for your suggestion of having tracking on these shipments.  While that would be ideal, it is uncommon to purchase tracking for items of such low value and may make the fundraiser unprofitable.  Furthermore having tracking on these packages would most likely still not solve the issue of the envelopes being ripped open.
 
Once again we are very sorry for the inconvenience that everyone has experienced.  Please rest assured that we are doing everything within our power to solve this issue in a timely manner.  Of course we would love to be able to provide helpful materials to our fellow blind students so that we can all be successful in our endeavors, but we are willing to refund your $10 payments if you wish.  I invite anyone who has any further questions, comments, or concerns to contact me directly via my personal email of luke.schwinck at hotmail.com or by phone at (620)717-3122.  We do very much appreciate all of you who have done your part to make this fundraiser a success and please know that we are doing everything we can to do ours.
 
Best Regards,
Luke A. Schwinck
Treasurer
National Association of Blind Students
A proud division of the National Federation of the Blind
 
> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:15:23 -0400
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] A Problem That Needs To Be Put Out Here
> From: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> CC: discoduck221 at gmail.com
> 
> Hi All!
> I'm sorry to have to do this, but I have to wonder if I'm the only
> person this has happened to, so it needs to be asked.
> Has anyone else who paid ten dollars for the tools for success thumb
> drive not received their drive?
> I know I didn't get my drive, and when I contacted the people in
> charge of this project after two weeks of not receiving mine, I was
> told it would be looked in to, but have heard nothing since, and they
> didn't even have a tracking number to track the shipment.
> I'm sorry, but when you run a fund raiser of this kind, you have to
> have a way to track stuff like this, so if a package isn't received,
> it can be traced so we know where the package is. I realize it's a
> pain to have to keep all those records, but that's just the
> responsible thing to do when you're sending out thumb drives all over
> the country and taking money from people. And if that required more
> than one person to be involved, I'm sure there are people on here who
> would gladly step up and help the project. But a fund raiser that
> doesn't deliver what people pay for is no good.
> I actually wanted to use this toolkit, as I am about to embark on some
> new ventures in my life, one of which will make me a student again,
> and really felt some of the info on it could have been useful.
> But if nothing is done soon, I will be filing a claim for the 10 dollars.
> So I hope I'm not the only one who has experienced this, and if I'm
> not, others should speak out.
> All the best,
> David Dunphy
> 
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