Since Thursday, I've cleared 5 grids on my FFMA quest.  3 will confirm via LoTW and 2 only hard cards (bummer).  And those 2 are from pretty rare grids.  Seems like they would want to reduce their workload of cards and use LoTW.  But NO!!!

Some I've worked HATE the ARRL and won't use LoTW for that reason.  But what they don't realize is that they are really SUPPORTING ARRL by everyone having to send in their cards for a fee.  Multiplied by the number of folks having to do this, it returns to the ARRL hundreds of not thousands of dollars that they actually give to the ARRL without using LoTW.  Go figure.