[Sciencewoman]

When we ordered my daughter's badge, I was surprised that her group keeps a stockpile of badges on hand at HQ, so you can get them really quickly. Our members have to order through IH, which then places the individual orders through H-J. As it was explained to me, the name engraving is the issue. We include that automatically, but in her case, her HQ sent the badge back to H-J for engraving, who sent it to her. Since her group includes a gold-filled badge with NM dues, I don't think special badge ordering is high volume. Tri Delta's insurance company will probably make them change their practices...hoping those badges were insured!