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Keys to the Citi Bike: Bike-Share Fobs Start to Arrive in Members’ Mailboxes

With a week to go until Citi Bike launches, we're hearing from readers who received their annual member keys in the mail over the weekend. Here's a look at the packet that reader "dporpentine" opened on Saturday.

If you haven't received your member key yet, I wouldn't worry. Citi Bike has to send out about 13,000 or so member keys in time for the May 27 launch, and they're not all going to arrive simultaneously. (I'm waiting for mine, too.)

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