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    Just wondering why

    the USFA does not post on their website the days of events earlier. The FIE has had the Louisville Junior World Cup events posted for over a month.

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    'Cause dem frenchies always like showing us true yankees up. Or something.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hscoach
    the USFA does not post on their website the days of events earlier. The FIE has had the Louisville Junior World Cup events posted for over a month.
    My point exactly! I cannot understand why the USFA is not responsive to the needs and gripes of its members, this being just one. If you e-mail them, if they reply (they don't always), they tell you that they will answer your query in the future. This turns often to be a very long wait (I'm still waiting for answers promised in February and August of this year). If you call them, provided you get through and speak to a human (versus a machine), the experience is equally painful.

    A great improvement in the communication would be if an officially designated USFA spokesperson would reply on this board once a week to the most pressing issues of the week. Any other suggestions out there?

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    Quote Originally Posted by telkanuru
    'Cause dem frenchies always like showing us true yankees up. Or something.
    The FIE is not French because it's the Federation INTERNATIONALE d'Escrime

    And if I'm not mistaken, their office are in Switzerland...

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    [QUOTE=gladius]My point exactly! I cannot understand why the USFA is not responsive to the needs and gripes of its members, this being just one. If you e-mail them, if they reply (they don't always), they tell you that they will answer your query in the future. This turns often to be a very long wait (I'm still waiting for answers promised in February and August of this year). If you call them, provided you get through and speak to a human (versus a machine), the experience is equally painful.

    If they were more efficient at posting things they might not have to answer the phone as much. I know several people called because one of the days at Louisville was scheduled the sametime as SATs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sreckiki
    The FIE is not French because it's the Federation INTERNATIONALE d'Escrime

    And if I'm not mistaken, their office are in Switzerland...
    Funny how the name for the international federation isn't in esperonto or something. I jest, in any case, if you didn't pick that up at first.
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    Quote Originally Posted by telkanuru
    I jest, in any case, if you didn't pick that up at first.
    I picked that up at first, thanks!

    By the way, even approximative , I have to say it was funny...

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    I've never really had a problem. Most of my contact issues were based on membership cards and ratings. I got a quick response and had my card that same week.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hscoach
    the USFA does not post on their website the days of events earlier. The FIE has had the Louisville Junior World Cup events posted for over a month.
    Another case of the USFA's reluctance or inability to keep their cyber-information timely.
    Nothing is more frightening than ignorance in action.

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