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Originally Posted by Acollector
You know, I have never printed a shipping label, and never bought postage online. I hand write every package and go to the post office and pay the postage there. I really hate that everything has become computerized and virtual. That's part of the reason I like dealing with money orders and checks. It's physical it's there. You have to go to the bank and deposit it, interact with other people. We've lost a lot of human contact thanks to cellular phones and the inter net. When something is printed on paper, if stored correctly, can be looked at 300 years from now. With a computer, it's a lot tougher, unless it's an email from the king of Nigeria telling you he has $1 million for you if you give him your account number. I had an external hard drive that lost me over 300 pictures I never printed. That might be part of the reason I am anti digital to a point. A computer virus can't delete what's on paper. I like protecting and saving things and history.
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Yeesh, I can't imagine hand-addressing the 100-200 packages per week that I ship, not to mention dealing with the handful that I would inevitably mis-copy some of the info. I am on a first name basis with all of the clerks at my local post office from dropping off and picking up packages. I think they would probably be LESS friendly though if they knew I was going to be standing at the counter for an hour every time I walked through the door.
I get where you're coming from with the photos, but I think I would miss photos lost from a failed hard drive more in 50 years than I would records of who I shipped packages to. I too have learned the hard way the value of a back-up system that is updated regularly. I just don't get as sentimental about old business records.
