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[thecatspajamas]

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.

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.

[Acollector]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

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.

I wouldn't say I am sentimental about business records, it's more keeping an almost foolproof (fire, flood, and theft being the fools that disprove it) methods of saving the records in case they are ever needed. I don't delete email and have had to look back 5 years and got my information, so it's sort of like insurance. It's seems like a waste until the day you need it, then you're glad you have it.