NAS membership and using the discussion forum

Does anyone know if I need to be a member of NAS to use this forum?

Presumably some of the regulars can tell me straight off if they subscribe to NAS.

I've been paying a subscription to NAS for over ten years, so not been in a position of not paying and using the discussion forum.

I moved to another part of the country last December and also changed my email address. Despite repeatedly asking NAS to update my details NAS are still sending surface mail to my old address, and still send me discussion notifications and promotional material to my old email address.

They keep emailing me to ask if I'm supporting campaigns where I used to live. They don't contact me about campaigning where I now live.

I paid the post office for a year's forwarding, but that arrangement runs out in three weeks. As the purchasers of my old house were going to do major work on it, I don't know if it is currently occupied and may not be able to ask anyone to forward mail from there. So any NAS mailings from here on will be lost to me.

My old email still receives but I've stopped paying the ISP so cannot use it to reply, so it is effectively a dead mailbox.

Added to which a month ago NAS wrote to me saying I'd stopped my subscription whereas I've found on enquiry it was a system error, but nothing has been put right.

Maybe, as I'm critical of them and a right pain on here they're doing it deliberately to get rid of me....... They're certainly succeeding in making an enemy of me....

And I'm certainly well and truly fed up, and thinking of ending my subscription to NAS. Just I do value to forum and would want to keep it going, hence asking whether people can use it without being NAS members. 

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  • I agree with you Paull about the lack of support.  I have previously contacted them about needing help and like you I was fobbed off with links to elsewhere (which I had already tried anyway) and that was after a delay of months before they replied to my email.  They just quoted stuff and sent me links, they offered me no help themselves and like you, that is what I thought they were there for.  I mean is the NAS just a name that talks about what is supposed to happen?  It seems to be short-staffed, lumbering and disorganised and to bat people away very quickly.  Even the website is a huge monolith of sublinks and confusion.  Do the NAS offer any actual physical help at all?  Do they not phone or write to people on your behalf when you are being let down by public bodies etc.?  Doesn't appear so.Frown

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  • I agree with you Paull about the lack of support.  I have previously contacted them about needing help and like you I was fobbed off with links to elsewhere (which I had already tried anyway) and that was after a delay of months before they replied to my email.  They just quoted stuff and sent me links, they offered me no help themselves and like you, that is what I thought they were there for.  I mean is the NAS just a name that talks about what is supposed to happen?  It seems to be short-staffed, lumbering and disorganised and to bat people away very quickly.  Even the website is a huge monolith of sublinks and confusion.  Do the NAS offer any actual physical help at all?  Do they not phone or write to people on your behalf when you are being let down by public bodies etc.?  Doesn't appear so.Frown

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