As has been pointed out elsewhere, the card production and validation areas of AUK are running at quite a large deficit. Not an immediate problem, but card and validation prices have been held for at least 6 years, while postal charges have gone through the roof.
As I said earlier, there's a real timing issue with setting these fees. Really, the regulation (11) that ties them to the AGM needs to be revised, but that's a notoriously difficult thing to do.
If people want to equate 'not for profit' with 'pay as you go' then we can see a bright future where, as Manotea so memorably put it
... it's only a matter of time before skynet becomes self aware Audax administration goes fully online ...
It'll all start with the online entry process, which will
populate the online Start Sheet, which will
notify AUK's accounts of the number of entrants for the event.
(Eols via smartphone??)
Brevet cards will be 'free', and downloaded as a .pdf or whatever during the entry process,
(Pam will
gratefully gracefully accept retirement)
each 'card' will not only be event-specific (as now) but dated,
and rider-specific (rider's name and address printed on the card)
and therefore non-transferable (see other thread).
(Info controls are a problem here, as are entrants losing their card before the event has even started
So on through the post-event process, much of which is already in place,
finishing with a precisely-accounted per-entrant and per-validation funds transfer from Org to Auk.