... Janice, but your comment:

>> ... a pre-registration package is made for people that
> per-register to attend a particular event and then SHOW UP
> at that event to claim AND USE the material inside the package.

... isn't universally or necessarily the case. I have attended other shows and conventions (NCR), for which pre-registration packets were routinely distibuted to friends of non-attendees, or mailed out after the fact to those who could not attend. In part, I suppose it depends on exactly what the purpose of the pre-registration package is and what's in it.

On the other hand, I think it would be unusual for this to be true:

> The only thing people not showing up to claim their package
> are ENTITLED TO is to get their money back. Period.

I don't expect to be able to get my CC>CC convention registration fee back if I don't attend and would never have even thought to ask for it.

Perhaps a compromise could be reached (regarding which I will post a separate message).

> The only reason there is such a big uproar over this "package"
> is because of the stupid Hard Rock chip coupon.

That you're probably right about , though I have other interests.

----- jim o\-S