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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Minneapolis: DL DM charter 2.3MM
Programs: A3*Gold, SPG Plat, HyattDiamond, MarriottPP, LHW exAccess, ICI, Raffles Amb, NW PE MM, TWA Gold MM
Posts: 100,404
During the year, new cards but not necessarily complete packages are mailed out as people qualify for new higher elite levels. At some point this ends and those cards tend to be sent in the big batch of packages that are produced when DL figures out the list of all elites for the next year. YMMV.