[optacon-l] Re: paperless living, and reading small items

  • From: "Effie Boyd" <starlyte@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 19:42:36 -0500

Hi Linda, I don't think we will ever be paperless either.  I thought that 
when we got computers, there might be hope but I guess not.  I have all of 
Randy Travis's religious CD's.  I like him, too.

Effie Boyd



God bless you,
Effie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Webb" <rtfan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 10:01 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: paperless living, and reading small items


> Lerae and List:
>
> As far as paperless, I doubt we'll ever become paperless even if we
> personally do and would want to.  We need some way to sort out all that 
> junk
> mail we get, don't we?(lol).
> Unless one has sighted assistance, I can think of no better way than our
> trusty Optacons.
>
> I just use regular checks with the typewriter attachment and until that
> dies, that will be my method of choice.
>
>
> Always and Forever...A Randy Travis Fan
> Linda and Guide, Greg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Lerae Olesen
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:07 PM
> To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: paperless living, and reading small items
>
> Linda G and list,
> I, too receive my bank statements in braille, they include a print 
> statement
>
> with the braille one, and they send the regular print statement by itself,
> so I definitely am not living a paperless life.  I keep track of the bank
> balance through the phone bank thing, have my phone, Internet, and
> electricity bills automatically deducted, and write checks for the rent 
> and
> my Visa card. I'm glad to be able to verify the checks that I write with 
> the
>
> Optacon. I have never worked with a typewriter lens, just by trial and
> error, have figured out how to coincide the raised lines of the check with
> the edge of the cartridge on my Smith Corona.
> I still receive hard copies of the phone and electric bills, but I don't 
> try
>
> to read them, since the phone bill is the same all the time, and I can 
> check
>
> the deductions over the phone.
> We don't want to carry this paperless thing too far, or somebody might
> wonder why we   need the Optacon. Smile.
> Lerae
> (Le rae)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Linda Gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:35 AM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: paperless living, and reading small items
>
>
>>I haven't gone the "brave new world" of paperless living yet.  I only 
>>write
>
>>a couple of
>> checks per month, but I still insist on getting braille bank statements
>> along with print bank statements
>> given that I'm on SSI and redeterminations may or may not still happen. 
>> I
>
>> pay via phone and
>> credit card when I can, if they don't charge me for making payments that
>> way.  I remember being
>> somewhat frustrated that when I was with Earthlink and had them directly
>> debit from my bank account, there was
>> always a charge for doing that.  I think they called it a "recovery
>> charge."  Right now I'm putting two
>> 41 cent stamps which my mom bought for me thinking they were forever
>> stamps because a postal employee told her
>> they were as they do not have a designation on the stamp saying they're 
>> 41
>
>> cents.  Gotta get rid of
>> them somehow and I don't need further confusion with a bunch of penny
>> stamps running around here, LOL.
>> My overpaying the post office is my contribution to stimulating the
>> economy, LOL!  Nope,
>> haven't figured out a way to read the stamps Optacon or otherwise, but as
>> long as I remember
>> to put 'em on in duplicate, guess it doesn't matter till I run out of
>> them.
>> Linda G.
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 06:30:25 -0700,  wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Mary L and list,
>>>
>>>Yes, paperless bills are definitely a plus; all my bills come to me 
>>>online
>>>and are paid that way. I have so little mail these days that the mail
>>>carrier commented about it. I suspect we all get less mail due to the
>>>economy; I heard a news item last week indicating that the U.S. postal
>>>service is considering (again!) not delivering on Saturdays; usually that
>>>idea gets tossed out, but maybe this time it will happen.
>>>
>>>Reading postage stamps has been a challenge; sometimes it's been easy to
>>>see
>>>the word "USA" in upper case, and below it, the number of cents followed
>>>by
>>>the cents sign. These days, though, I guess the color is different 
>>>because
>>>it's not easy to figure out the amount. The cost of postage keeps going
>>>up.
>>>There are "forever" stamps, which I haven't purchased, but apparently
>>>they're quite popular. Has anybody figured out any techniques for reading
>>>stamps and other small items?
>>>
>>>Mary
>>>
>>>
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