Going GREEN
“The Railroaders Memorial Museum is going GREEN:
The Standard will NOT be USPS mail delivered in the future. All copies will be in PDF format at www.railroadcity.com or it can be direct e-mailed to you when you sign on with our e-mail marketing program by going to www.railroadcity.com; fill out form at bottom of page and click submit.”
I’ve seen it a thousand times!
Send bills electronically via e-mail, statements via e-mail, everything via e-mail.
And so goes the Postal Service; what Granny has depended on since time immemorial.
“COMPUTERS! I wouldn’t touch one of them things with a ten-foot pole! I sure am glad you understand ‘em.”
Yrs trly prefers e-mail. In fact, I online everything if I can.
Bill-pays, special orders, charity, purchases. Although I online bill-pay via Canandaigua National Bank; that way it’s ME initiating the bill-pay, not some money-hungry payee going bonkers.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
I’ve seen it happen.
A friend parrying some dude in India who could barely speak English, because automatic bill-pays were mistakenly overdrawing her account — going bonkers.
That’s not happening to this kid!
I initiate the bill-pays myself. And it doesn’t matter if it’s e-mail billing, or paper, I ain’t usin’ the payee’s site.
To me, “going GREEN” means the payee wants to avoid postage, and printing bills on paper.
“Going GREEN” just makes it sound nice.
I will probably go to getting my Standard e-mail, and eventually my bills, although doing so just shoves the cost of printing to me, if I print them.
Even if I don’t print, my computer has to still work, and that’s not a given. —Paper bills from a biller seem to always work.
If I print, I’m still cluttering the landfill, or my bluebox. And slaughtering trees.
They can call it “Going GREEN” if they want, but to me that’s just dressing up a pig. (Cue Sarah Palin.)
• “Railroaders Memorial Museum” is a railroad museum in Altoona, PA (“al-TUNE-uh;” as in the name “Al”). Altoona was once the shop town of the Pennsylvania Railroad; it was founded about 1846 by the railroad, and eventually thousands were employed by those shops. —I’m a railfan, and have been since age two (I’m currently 67). (Pennsylvania Railroad no longer exists, and it’s Altoona shops are pretty much now closed.)
• Years ago the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest and most powerful railroad on the planet. It called itself “The Standard Railroad of the World.” —For which reason Railroaders Memorial Museum’s newsletter is called “The Standard.”
• “Canandaigua” (“cannan-DAY-gwuh”) is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” It’s about 15 miles away. (We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield, southeast of Rochester. )—“Canandaigua National Bank” is the locally-based bank therein.
The Standard will NOT be USPS mail delivered in the future. All copies will be in PDF format at www.railroadcity.com or it can be direct e-mailed to you when you sign on with our e-mail marketing program by going to www.railroadcity.com; fill out form at bottom of page and click submit.”
I’ve seen it a thousand times!
Send bills electronically via e-mail, statements via e-mail, everything via e-mail.
And so goes the Postal Service; what Granny has depended on since time immemorial.
“COMPUTERS! I wouldn’t touch one of them things with a ten-foot pole! I sure am glad you understand ‘em.”
Yrs trly prefers e-mail. In fact, I online everything if I can.
Bill-pays, special orders, charity, purchases. Although I online bill-pay via Canandaigua National Bank; that way it’s ME initiating the bill-pay, not some money-hungry payee going bonkers.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
I’ve seen it happen.
A friend parrying some dude in India who could barely speak English, because automatic bill-pays were mistakenly overdrawing her account — going bonkers.
That’s not happening to this kid!
I initiate the bill-pays myself. And it doesn’t matter if it’s e-mail billing, or paper, I ain’t usin’ the payee’s site.
To me, “going GREEN” means the payee wants to avoid postage, and printing bills on paper.
“Going GREEN” just makes it sound nice.
I will probably go to getting my Standard e-mail, and eventually my bills, although doing so just shoves the cost of printing to me, if I print them.
Even if I don’t print, my computer has to still work, and that’s not a given. —Paper bills from a biller seem to always work.
If I print, I’m still cluttering the landfill, or my bluebox. And slaughtering trees.
They can call it “Going GREEN” if they want, but to me that’s just dressing up a pig. (Cue Sarah Palin.)
• “Railroaders Memorial Museum” is a railroad museum in Altoona, PA (“al-TUNE-uh;” as in the name “Al”). Altoona was once the shop town of the Pennsylvania Railroad; it was founded about 1846 by the railroad, and eventually thousands were employed by those shops. —I’m a railfan, and have been since age two (I’m currently 67). (Pennsylvania Railroad no longer exists, and it’s Altoona shops are pretty much now closed.)
• Years ago the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest and most powerful railroad on the planet. It called itself “The Standard Railroad of the World.” —For which reason Railroaders Memorial Museum’s newsletter is called “The Standard.”
• “Canandaigua” (“cannan-DAY-gwuh”) is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” It’s about 15 miles away. (We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield, southeast of Rochester. )—“Canandaigua National Bank” is the locally-based bank therein.
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