Brian's Scoop
What's in Store at the
NAPS Store?
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Brian Wagner
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If you love NAPS and love to shop, then you will love to shop at the NAPS Store at www.naps.org. Our NAPS store just received a facelift. What can you expect? Here's the scoop.
The NAPS Store now has pictures of the items available for sale. There is no more sight unseen shopping. We have our standard NAPS logo items, but we may add other products as we progress through this new shopping experience.
Most of the items at the NAPS Store are staples of NAPS officer pins, men's and women's NAPS watches, and a retirement certificate to name a few. We have added the order form link to compute the totals of the quantities you wish to receive. You just need to add the dollar sign ($).
Once you have your total, mail your form to NAPS headquarters along with your check or money order. Prices included postage and handling.
The NAPS business card section is new to the store. Many branch officers would like business cards, but don't need 500 at a time. We developed a NAPS business card ladder to allow orders of 50, 100 or 500 cards. The 500 business card order is in color with raised print. The orders for 50 or 100 business cards are in color, without the raised print.
If you order business cards, make sure you include all the information you want printed on the card - name, NAPS title, address, phone, fax, email, etc. Also, remember space is limited. We print the orders for 50 and 100 cards in house at NAPS headquarters. Before we print your business card, we will send you a proof for final approval.
Once an order and payment are received, our turnaround goal to you is two-weeks, depending on our supply and if we have to make any special orders.
As we progress through our NAPS Store, we plan to offer other NAPS logo items, either through NAPS headquarters or through contract vendors. However, we don't want to go overboard and over commit to products we may not be able to get.
The other option we have with the NAPS Store is to offer our officers and branches, "fire sale" type of items. As we start our 2012 spring cleaning, we are finding items in storage that we don't have enough to use for either LTS or a National Convention.
However, there may be enough items for a NAPS Area VP, state or local branch to use for an upcoming NAPS convention, training, retirement dinner, or other NAPS event. As we find such items, while supplies last, we will post them on the NAPS Store on a first-come/first-serve basis. Some items will have a cost while others will be free, with only the postage needing to be paid.
Speaking of free, we still have limited quantities of free items -- Historical Sketch, Back To Our Birthplace (narrative historical magazine), Membership (Dues) cards (continuous feed only), and the DDF/Postal Inspection Service Awareness cards listed on our NAPS Store for branch officers. These items are great for helping increase membership.
I know you are wondering what's in store for my recommendation for the ice cream flavor of the week -- Neapolitan.
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