I can only recall applying for 2 membership cards which have to be received via snail mail .
The first is a Starwood hotels card which I never even used when I stayed at the Le Meridien and Double Tree Hilton .
Now this is the second .
From the postage chop you can see that it came all the way from Japan and contains not only a letter with the card proper , but also a very useful information brochure ( so we don't have to keep logging onto the net to check it out ) .