Edit: It's down to me being dumb. I've added an explanation below.
Edit: I should not have entered the leading K. It gives that error message if you put anything invalid in the old membership number field. If i had just entered the
nnnnn number it would have worked.
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This is very minor, but I thought I'd post it here if anyone is interested.
I just re-joined AUK, having let my membership lapse in 2016. The site is well aware that my membership has expired - I get a message to that effect if I try to log in with my old membership number. On the
membership application form is a field to enter your previous membership number. So I entered my old membership number, (K
nnnnn) thinking this may make the process a bit simpler. However it gave me an error message "Sorry that membership number is already in use. Please join as a new member."
No problem, I joined as a new member and everything worked fine but I just found that a bit odd. Has my old membership number been recycled?