@Hudson J1e posted:About 2-3 years ago I had let my MTHRRC membership lapse. I rejoined last November. I wanted the Standard Gauge car. The car showed up about two or 3 weeks later but I never got a membership card or anything else. Initially I thought it was because I joined up near the end of the year. Now I feel this may have happened due to the closure. I assume my membership was for 2019. I would like to join up for 2020 but I am a little nervous about it. I like the Premier boxcar. Perhaps I will give MTH a call.
OK, makes sense to me now. The cycle of when the club was generally offered was earlier in the year, and the cars (with some exceptions when there were delays) would occasionally be available at April York, or shipped some time around July.
I received both club cars earlier this summer. You should call and see if they have any left. Unless the intentionally did a smaller run because they knew of the closure before the public did, there may still be a few extras to be had. I'm pretty sure it was not a "BTO" situation. It made sense for them to keep some extras after the initial memberships were signed up in case people were interested later in the year, as you did last year.
For this year, I did not get a separate envelope with my card and pin (which was normally pretty standard), it was just placed in the end of the box for one of the cars.
I mistakenly assumed that people on this board who bought the club cars all knew the somewhat regular timeline for release and were buying when first offered. That is obviously not true since now both you and the OP of the question I was responding to may have bought club items later in the year. 
-Dave
