My membership was due to expire on May 31. I renewed that day. One week later, I received my new ID card. Two weeks later, I received another ID card. The only difference I can see is the 4 digit number next to the bar code. So is this bureaucratic duplication? Not really an issue but it is curious. Thoughts?
Had the same thing happen to me except they showed up two days apart, also I am a new member not a renewed member.
I ordered a second id right after I made Maj (which was a couple days after my renewal) and they are one digit off, so I'm guessing that they are a sequence number to the producer in batches of 9999, then they would recycle back to 0001.
I got a new card in April. I just looked at it closely, and the 4 digit number next to the bar code is the last 4 of my SSAN.
Quote from: SarDragon on June 19, 2013, 02:11:16 AM
I got a new card in April. I just looked at it closely, and the 4 digit number next to the bar code is the last 4 of my SSAN.
Hmm...interesting - useful for base access when they want that info, but a potential persec issue as well.
The four digit numbers on mine are meaningless to me. The bar codes seem similar just by eyeballing them.