What a mess

[xie]

I find myself wondering how much of the billion+ was spent on snail mail literature, USB drives, and duplicate copies of bands.

We have duplicate copies of bands. We have received 3 packages with mouse head USB drives in them over the last 5 months. We got multiple, heavy duty full color multi-page brochures, in duplicate and triplicate.

Just today, I got yet another thick multi-page mailer about APs and Fast Pass+.

We've stayed onsite in the last few months and although we have bands from those trips, I halfway expect to get another set of bands any minute now due to the APs we have.

It's like nobody in marketing or resorts knows how to query their database(s) to find out who already was sent the big USB package, etc. It's just not that hard to keep track of whether and when you sent a package, and not send the same identical thing out again, or at least not send it out again within 12 months of the first one. I want to tell them to stop killing trees and filling landfills with USB drives.

 

[pixarmom]

We have three sets: one from our BWI stay in February, one from our Poly stay last week, and one as AP holders. Last week, we brought all three sets and used all three of our bands interchangeably. No problem getting into parks, charging, opening the door to our room, getting into the Hawaii building, etc. I asked at check-in and the CL CM confirmed that as long as they are active on MDE, they should work automatically.

(I wasn't sure at first, so last week I wore one and carried the other two in my bag, but didn't the backup.)

 

[cigar95]

I find myself wondering how much of the billion+ was spent on snail mail literature, USB drives, and duplicate copies of bands.

Almost none, at the margins. This stuff is all fixed-price contracts with vendors, including the shipping costs. Eventually, once all the other processes are under control, these secondary issues are going to be addressed. But at the early stages, it would just be one more source of potential problems.