Everywhere I go I am being asked to go "paperless" and do things "on-line". Pay bills, do banking, deal with accounts, etc etc. Every time I try to do that they ask me to set up an account with some secret "handshake" which I never seem to write down or remember. When I do break down and try to set something up I end up trying to give them the same password I use for everything...except they don't like it because it doesn't have enough digits or it needs something capitalized, or a star or an asterisk or what have you.


So, I just keep insisting to do things through the mail or over the phone....on my land-line. Thank you very much! Sometimes over the phone some young sweet voice will say that my request can easily be done "on-line". I usually ask what "on-line" means. Seems to flabbergast them some. LOL

To me online is so much easier and simpler. And auto withdrawals is even easier, no forgetting or lost in the mail. Get a conformation every time a bill is paid. Check checking immediately after a purchase to verify.

Just curious, when you order trapping supplies, do you mark things on an order form and mail a check or money order? Or do you go online, pick what you want and pay?

The more they can get folks to do 'online' the more disruption there will be when they bring down the internet....

Exactly...can’t say I didn’t pay when the www goes down, lol.

The net ever goes down and civilization will crumble.....all critical systems in the first world are dependent on it.

Seems no one wants to talk to you anymore--texts and e-mails. Everywhere you go,people can't put their cell phones down,doesn't matter where they are.
Old school dinosaur --worst thing that ever happened---cell phones.
Tom

Absolutely right.

The only bill I pay physically is my mortgage, which I actually deposit at the bank.

I don't like having a bunch of different passwords either. I try to base all my passwords on a few short codes plus certain information from the name of the business. That way I can figure out my passwords if I forget them.

You could do something like have every password start with Aa1% then the first letter, third letter and 5th letter of the business plus however many more Aa's as needed to have the correct number of characters. That way you don't have to remember individual passwords

Keith

I agree 100%
Wanna Be: 95% of the time I pay with cash, check, money order with an order form and send USPS. Have never had anyone say I didn't pay. I am also an old dinosaur but it works for me.

Everything we do is setup automatically online. Everything gets paid on the credit card and we pay it off each month. We get 2% back so we actually make money doing it this way. The only time I have to remember to do anything unusual is if a card has been compromised or expired and I have to set the new one up. It takes just a minute or two. There are still things I like to do through paper but bills are way easier to me online.

I have been going to cash for everything -- harder to do with some things than others. about the only things I have set up on auto pay are insurance. I have one vendor that doesn't like cash --i pay by cc or check. You would be amazed at some of the companies "cash" discounts they make the 2-3% cash back look pretty puny. today one of my vendors gave me a20% cash discount.

Irritates the heck out of me. Everybody wants you to do their job for them, "you can do it on-line." If I wanted to do it online I wouldn't have called you! I do order some stuff online, but quite a bit I order over the phone. I don't do any banking online, everybody says how safe and easy it is. But half the people I know (at least) who do their banking online have had their account hacked. No thanks. I don't do autopay either, I'll send in a check each month, I'm not giving you my bank account number. Not that big a deal, because other than electricity, internet, phone bill, and the monthly credit card and gas bill I don't have any monthly bills. If I can't afford to pay cash for it, I figure I can't afford it and I'll just do without until I save enough money to buy it.

Just paid the electric bill online. Found it had a surcharge of $7.00 to do it online.Will be done by check again from now on.

^^^^ And the government can access all your money and accounts to control you, it’s coming..

I'll buy things online now and then, but that's as far as I'm willing to go. Heck, I even still write checks at the store.

There is no need to fear online banking and online bill paying and online online. We are way past being a paperless society. That was 25 years ago.
Jump in the water's fine and if the internet goes down as some here predict, all merchants, all electric grids, all water systems and such will "stop."
In that case, an outdoor bush for waste elimination, a body of water for bathing and fish production, a good dog for bringing home the meat, and a good woman, for cooking over a fire or jerking what the dog brought back are in order.

You won't stop the evolution of technology. It's what America is.

Blessings,
Mark

Best thing we ever did was get rid of checks for payment at our household. Made reconciling checkbook a breeze with accounting software and bill pay features through bank.
All I ever pay anything with these days is some cash in my wallet (cause there is always some place that won't take cards or phone pay) and a debit card, or otherwise i use the smart pay features on my phone.
Checks and today's snail mail are the worst payment methods for bills in my opinion. So open to fraud and delays or lost payments.
Jim

My wife and I went paperless for a while, then her retirement account got hacked and we almost lost a hefty sum of money. We do not do any banking or pay bills online anymore. Went back to everything on paper. Just like fossil fuel, paper isn’t going away for a long time yet. Pulpwood and chip trucks lined up at the truck scales at International and Finch paper mills in NY everyday.

I still believe in cash on the barrel head.
If a business doesn't want a USPS MO or cash
I just go somewhere else.

So all y'all lovin the online stuff. Y'all gonna get the chip to make it easier too?
That's where it's headed, fast!!!!

I buy all my trapping stuff online from many different dealers on here too. Never had an issue.
Jim