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

  • From: Linda Gehres <ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:35:45 -0700

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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