Club 1- all done through the mail,, you send in dues, they send you a club card for that year once they confirm your AMA for that year.
Club 2- You must bring your AMA card and your payment to a monthly Club meeting to get the new year's "Sticker" for your AMA card. If you can't make meetings it's the members responsibility to mail in the payment to the treasure. Sticker will be mail back out one AMA status is confirmed.
Neither of these process are very hard to manage for the club member, defined as Archaic or not., I mean really if you can't mail in an envelope, can you really build a plane??