2015 DM packet has arrived!
Jan 26, 2015, 2:58 pm
#61
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The metal ones came with the DM packages and, as others down thread have noted, were notorious for failing.
I have given this year's version a hearty tug test and they stayed together. We'll see what the rampers can do to them.
Jan 26, 2015, 3:02 pm
#62
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My DM tags haven't arrived yet, but I think I'll still leave my FO tags on my bag just for fun. I love hearing about how a FO shouldn't be upgraded before a DM. 
Jan 26, 2015, 3:23 pm
#64
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I'm certain that you're not serious. Would you really expect them to award you something for flights that haven't been flown yet and could possibly be canceled? They have never done this from what I've read here.
Jan 26, 2015, 3:29 pm
#65
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Of course not, but I would ahve expected them to hold off on ordering my DM 1MM credentials to see whether they should have been DM 2MM. It's not like ordering the card in early December rather than sometime between summer and November would ahve made muc difference in terms of my receiving it before March 1.
Jan 26, 2015, 3:30 pm
#66
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Jan 26, 2015, 3:36 pm
#67
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Sometimes I wonder whether baggage handlers are snitching them to sell on eBay.
Jan 26, 2015, 3:39 pm
#68
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I wouldn't. I'd bet that they spit out the current list at the moment at whatever time the printing company needs them, of what packets need produced, and case closed. It would probably take way too much forethought as to who NOT to produce a packet for, in case somebody's status MIGHT change.
Jan 26, 2015, 6:16 pm
#69
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I wouldn't. I'd bet that they spit out the current list at the moment at whatever time the printing company needs them, of what packets need produced, and case closed. It would probably take way too much forethought as to who NOT to produce a packet for, in case somebody's status MIGHT change.
Jan 26, 2015, 6:22 pm
#70
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But at the end of the day, regardless of MM status or not, they're just tags. Don't we have bigger fish to fry as frequent travelers?
Jan 26, 2015, 6:23 pm
#71
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Jan 26, 2015, 6:45 pm
#72
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Jan 26, 2015, 6:46 pm
#73
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Jan 26, 2015, 6:58 pm
#74
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I lost a bent one that was curved to exactly fit around the handle of my roller bag. No, I didn't bend it--that was done the first time the bag was checked. Much later that distinctive brag tag disappeared.
Jan 26, 2015, 10:12 pm
#75
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Back on the topic of SM Medallion Packets, according to @deltaassist (as of an hour ago) I received the following DL SM Policy. This was in response to my inquiry as to the status of my GM and PM packets as well as my wife's FO packet (I gifted her Silver)
"In regards to your GM/PM package pls allow up to 2/09/15. If it hasn't arrived we'll need to contact SM account desk to track the status. Since Andrea earned FO status right towards the end of the year we no longer mail out Silver Medallion packages.
Members qualifying on or after 12/22/14 will not receive a physical credential package."
"In regards to your GM/PM package pls allow up to 2/09/15. If it hasn't arrived we'll need to contact SM account desk to track the status. Since Andrea earned FO status right towards the end of the year we no longer mail out Silver Medallion packages.
Members qualifying on or after 12/22/14 will not receive a physical credential package."