Registering Groups For PALM

In the past 5 years PALM has filled quickly: in 2008 PALM filled in 10 days. It filled in 9 days in 2009, 7 days in 2010, 4 days in 2011, and 2 days in 2012. If you want to register a group of riders, you can still do it but it takes some strategy. First include the applications for everyone in your group in the same envelope. We use postmarks to determine the ride cutoff (and round up. Everybody who has the same postmark as the 700th rider is on the ride.) If everybody is in the same envelope, they all have the same postmark so everybody in the group is on PALM or nobody in the group is on PALM.

But what if some members of the group live far away? If PALM fills in 2 days like it did last year, how can the applications for these remote members be included in the same envelope in time?

Solution: include an application for the remote members (it will be missing signatures)  and include it in the envelope with the rest of the (signed) applications. Include a note saying that their completed signed application will be sent separately (and include their registration fee). Have the remote members download and mail in their completed, signed applications with a note saying that their unsigned application has already been submitted and who submitted it. We'll join them together at PALM headquarters.

Remember to get the earliest possible postmark, go to a post office and have the postal clerk postmark or round date the envelope with all the applications in it and mail it 1st class. You do not have to priority mail the envelope. We go by postmark, not delivery date. It could take days to actually get to us, but you'll be on the ride if the postmark is right. But do this as quickly as you can: say Monday January 14.