I know, I know, my Tin Foil may be wrapped too tight.
BUT.
When I see things like this my cynical brain automatically goes to:
“Oh, this is a propaganda piece, an influential nudge piece, to make people more worried and afraid of paper checks and money, so we move faster into completely digital finances”.
Or something like that.
Anyone else?
During the “peaceful protests,” I seem to recall twice having mailed checks not reaching their destinations in Philadelphia. A coincidence perhaps but also a potential culprit.
Rest assured, it’s not just you.
I know the credit card companies and other companies try like hell to move you off paying in a manual process with mail. It is cheaper for them to send out emails.
Or, not send out emails at all, and then surcharge customers when they don’t get the notice to pay.
Four years now, I have been in a running battle with many entities who try as hard as they can to make me abandoned Paper bills and the US mail, even to the point where they simply switch me and think I won’t notice. And they make it so that you have to call them to get it switched back.
Oh yeah, it really bugs me. But I make damn sure I do it. What is good for them, it’s not necessarily what is good for me.
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