Why Can't I Send Someone a Private Message (PM)?

Another reason your PM feature may not be working properly is because Newly Registered users are not immediately granted PM privileges. New members must contribute a certain number of legitimate/useful posts to the Forum before PM privileges are granted to the user. (Not messages from one user to another like "I'll PM you as soon as the Moderators grant me PM privileges" or "What street have you been assigned to? I'm on Rahimah."

The Forum remains useful and successful when a variety of users contribute their views and experiences for EVERYONE ON THE FORUM to take advantage of. (It takes more than moderators and 5 or 6 other users answering questions.) The Forum is not intended to be your private messaging service. That's what personal email is for. Please understand that PM privileges are granted after you post a pre-determined number of posts which are useful to the entire Forum community.

I hope this is helpful to those who cannot figure out why the PM feature isn't working yet, and they just signed up yesterday.