comment received from a Bettina Network bed & breakfast guest about the blog “Why the Post Office is Failing?
“Thank you for that blog. Really, one truly never knows what will appear on your blog.
I was delighted to see this topic because it has to do with one of my pet peeves – the technology people, the computer programmers and others in that same area use their technology knowledge and assume it is everything. So what is happening here is the tech area telling the rest of us how we now have to do business. Technology is a staff function. It supports the rest. It has become the only function in charge with everything else taking a secondary seat and sometimes supporting, but most times just pushed out of the way as though generations of experience don’t matter, only the increasing tech takeover of everything in this society.
I’ve seen many places where this is true. This post office box thing is indicative of how the tech area will change the rest of society and not always for the better. In fact, most times it is for the worst.
You don’t have to be a business to have run into this problem. My personal address is a post office box number because I travel a lot. I don’t want mail accumulating outside my door when I am gone and I don’t want to put a stop on my mail at the post office so my brilliant alternative was to have a P. O. Box. I can pick up my mail when I am in town and no problems. However, I am having the same problem – I can’t get a lot of things on line because of my Post Office Box. My co-worker also travels and has a post office box with xxxxxxxxxxx (Editor’s wipe out). She has no problems because her post office box has a street address and suite number. I didn’t follow her example because it costs more and I couldn’t justify the extra expense. If this becomes more common, as it seems to be on that path, the Post Office will suffer declines in income from this part of their service.
Keep up the good work. Root out all of the problems – then its up to the rest of us to fix them. Hopefully, we will not be too lethargic to address this problem and others. All it takes is many, many people protesting to change this.”
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Post Office Failing?
comment received from a Bettina Network bed & breakfast guest about the blog “Why the Post Office is Failing?
“Thank you for that blog. Really, one truly never knows what will appear on your blog.
I was delighted to see this topic because it has to do with one of my pet peeves – the technology people, the computer programmers and others in that same area use their technology knowledge and assume it is everything. So what is happening here is the tech area telling the rest of us how we now have to do business. Technology is a staff function. It supports the rest. It has become the only function in charge with everything else taking a secondary seat and sometimes supporting, but most times just pushed out of the way as though generations of experience don’t matter, only the increasing tech takeover of everything in this society.
I’ve seen many places where this is true. This post office box thing is indicative of how the tech area will change the rest of society and not always for the better. In fact, most times it is for the worst.
You don’t have to be a business to have run into this problem. My personal address is a post office box number because I travel a lot. I don’t want mail accumulating outside my door when I am gone and I don’t want to put a stop on my mail at the post office so my brilliant alternative was to have a P. O. Box. I can pick up my mail when I am in town and no problems. However, I am having the same problem – I can’t get a lot of things on line because of my Post Office Box. My co-worker also travels and has a post office box with xxxxxxxxxxx (Editor’s wipe out). She has no problems because her post office box has a street address and suite number. I didn’t follow her example because it costs more and I couldn’t justify the extra expense. If this becomes more common, as it seems to be on that path, the Post Office will suffer declines in income from this part of their service.
Keep up the good work. Root out all of the problems – then its up to the rest of us to fix them. Hopefully, we will not be too lethargic to address this problem and others. All it takes is many, many people protesting to change this.”
________________________________________________________________
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[give_form id=”3763″]
______________________________________________________________
Want to join us? Have a home that you want to open to become one of Bettina Network’s Hedge Schools? Call us and lets talk – or email us.
Ed. Note: Members of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community can contribute to the Bettina Network Blog whenever they have anything they want to say and be heard by this fantastic group of people. Send your blog to bettinanetwork@comcast.net or mail it to us at P. O. Box 380585 Cambridge, MA. 02238 or call us on the telephone at 617-497-9166 to tell us what you want to say and we will write it for you.
Volunteer with Bettina Network Foundation, inc. to work estate sales; to help move items from one home to another; to contribute your ideas on how we can better use our resources in this effort to relieve and eliminate homelessness and poverty. We also need photographers; designers; and more. However much or little time you have, we are grateful.
Send your event information to be included in Bettina Network’s Menu of Events to: bettina-network@comcast.net
This is a curated blog so you cannot write your responses at the end of each entry. TO RESPOND TO THIS BLOG email bettina-network@comcast.net or info@bettina-network.com
TO LEARN MORE about Bettina Network, inc. try www.bettina-network.com
IF YOU ENJOY OUR BLOG, USE OUR SERVICES TO BOOK ACCOMODATIONS WHEN YOU TRAVEL!
1-800-347-9166 inside the U. S. or 617 497 9166 outside or inside the U. S.
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