Book Board Chat

Thanks for that post, Diane. I do my share with first class mail...still preferring to pay my bills the old fashioned way and not do online bill paying. Their prices have climbed for those of us remaining who don't choose to do everything electronically, though; and so it might be a doomsday kind of cycle. Jane: I am not sure WHEN this went into effect; I noticed a couple months back that you had to indicate on the little screen or declare to the clerk whether anything fragile was in the box, and so maybe that came into being at the first of the year and I didn't notice until fairly recently. I can't recall when they started asking that question, but it doesn't seem very long. I WILL be asking my friendly neighborhood postmaster that very thing - - soon. So instead of buying insurance for a couple of dollars, you pay $10 more if you check that box. It may be less for lighter weights...dunno. And you would still have to buy insurance if you didn't ship priority. Someday I believe the electronics are going to bite us in the butt...all kinds of stores are going to be unable to do business because everything is computerized now and there is no backup system in place. We had a power outage in this town of about 1 hour this past week; and the grocery store, drug store, post office, etc. could NOT serve customers. What will happen during a real long-lasting emergency? I'm sure you people in the south and OK, etc., could answer that. Do some businesses have backup manual registers or any way to sell people loaves of bread or gallons of milk or whatever? Disturbing to contemplate, isn't it?