Snail Mailing A CC Payment

[BucketBack]

So I paid off the Bass Pro Shop Card, sent the check snailmail 12/6. Cap One received it on 12 / 29, so 23 days to make it there.

The payment was for $10.58

This was the first time snailmailing a payment in over 10 years,,

[Sasquatch]

Why did you snail mail it?

[BucketBack]

I had a paper invoice, envelope, and stamp, and felt retro like.

I bought a gun in Cabela's Parking lot, the seller had cash and was going shopping.

I went in and didn't buy nothing, came out with a Ass Pro Credit Card, a hat, and a duffel bag.

I just paid next months balance online and payment posted within 24 hours.

It was a bit more than $10.58 due to binge holiday shopping..

[Inor]

I snail-mail all my company bills. Mrs Inor pays all of our household bills online. She has been on me for years to start paying my company bills online. But I NEVER have problems with my company bills actually being paid. A couple times per year she has to call the bank and sort through some kind of issue with a household bill (or the bank's statement on our checkbook does not match with the spreadsheet we keep offline).

My accountant made a change to how my company is incorporated last year that necessitated me to close my old checking and open a new one. So, I had to order new checks as well. It cost me over $200 for box of new checks! They are checks designed to be used in a printer so they are more expensive than just normal checks you would get for a personal checking account, but still...

Even so, if I factor in the time that I would have to spend a couple times per year fixing whatever discrepancies (like Mrs Inor has to do), my time is worth FAR more than the $200 for a box of checks!

[Chiefster23]

My birthday is in early June. My step daughter mailed my card in time for proper delivery. It arrived the first week of December. The USPS SUCKS.
A while back my wife ordered a new cell phone case. It was scanned as delivered into my mailbox, but it never actually arrived until 3 months later. The USPS sucks!
The last time I renewed my drivers license, I did it with a check via snail mail. It never arrived. THE USPS SUCKS!!!

[rstanek]

I mailed a title and a lien release to the dept of transportation awhile back, time past, didn’t hear back, made a call about three months later, the DOT never received it so I had to get another lien release and duplicate title. I went directly to the DMV to get this taken care of and because it was for a mobile home they said I had to mail it, they couldn’t do it at the local office, after arguing and being somewhat assertive they finally took care of it there, bunch of lazy bastards…. So there is still a title and lien release out there and is been about five years……

[MountainGirl]

Exponential growth.

Yes, there are slack lazy workers across the board. That said - Even IF every employee, private or public, were efficient and dedicated - the volume, the sheer numbers, of incoming tasks are now impossible to service.

Best example is Social Security.
Ten years ago, you could walk in to a local office, take a number, wait maybe an hour for your turn, and then get everything done you needed doing. Now - you have to wait on the phone, for that same hour, just to make an appointment - next opening is several months out - to do the same thing.

The last time I had to do that ^^ I asked the SS employee what's going on? He said - the system wasn't designed to handle the over 2 million public contacts/requests every day.

I'm not wild about paying things online either, but I do.... and screenshot the proof.
Anything that cant be done online - I drive to the agency. I dont trust the mail anymore.

Exponential growth.

[Mad Trapper]

Why did you snail mail it?

As internet is not safe

[Slippy]

I'll wager that the US population will EXPLODE over the next 10 years. We may hit 450 or 500 million people in the US by 2030.

If the trend continues where 50% of the population is on government freebies, we will have approx 250 million people living off the taxpayers!

UNSUSTAINABLE IMHO.

For discussion sake, I'll take the last 80 years, since most of us are younger than 80.

1940; US Population was approx 130 million
1980; US Population was approx 225 million
2020; US Population was approx 350 million
2030; I'm putting the numbers at or above 450 million

Arguably, the illegal (un-accountable) population is much higher today than it was 80 years. Estimates are at 50 million. Even if the illegal population in 1940 was 15 million we still have damn near quadrupled our population in 80 years.

I add this nugget to this thread because of the push for wireless and cashless transactions

[Slippy]

For what its worth, I believe the population "sweet spot" for the USA is the 1950 Census number of approx 150 million citizens.