Kind of on the same thread as who still writes checks, how often do you find yourself buying stamps or mailing anything?
I think a book of stamps can last us the better part of a year. All of the bills are electronic and are paid the same way. Both my wife and I have our salaries direct deposited. I honestly check our mailbox maybe twice a week, and generally it's stuff my wife has ordered online.
Really the only time we go through a lot of stamps is Christmas cards we send.
I personally do not mail anything, but my parents like to send me cards and sometimes something small in the mail while I'm at college. Obviously it's more of a fun novelty than a necessity, but at least we use it for something.
Basically just when I send out those checks I mentioned in the other thread. I get a lot of parcels delivered to me though the USPS because of sign collecting though.
My wife mails stuff all the time. She has a direct sales job, so she's always sending things out to customers. Heck, a lot of the time we put a basket outside to contain all the stuff we're sending out.
Not as often as I'd like: I have a business too, so I mail something every time I make a sale.
See my post in the check-writing thread. Most all of those checks get mailed. Plus, I sometimes answer or initiate correspondence via paper. Challenging or disputing a charge on a credit card requires either a phone call or a letter, and I much prefer writing a letter to making a phone call and doing the customer service dance with someone who speaks English as a second or third language.
My wife sells on eBay and Poshmark, so we mail quite a bit of stuff that she sells.
Between my business and personal? 4 days a week.
Usually, I mail something about once a month. Holiday cards are an exception, at the end of the year. The other big exception is a club newsletter that is snail-mailed once every three months, and e-mailed the rest of the year. The snail-mail issues are largely a concession to older members who don't do e-mail. I try to get interesting stamps for those, rather than just the standard-issue forever stamps.
For a time, I had a supply of the Postal Service 34¢ stamps featuring carnivorous plants, like the Venus Flytrap. I used those to mail my tax returns.
Just for occasions. Going to send my kids Easter candy soon.
About 2-4 times a moth to mail the couple checks I still use.
I send out birthday cards and holiday cards, but other than that, not often. The medical bills I have to write a check for are basically it.
Currently, I still have my Santa Claus stamps I got at Christmas. I wonder if the people at the other end of my mail think I'm weird for using Santa stamps now.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 18, 2021, 07:16:32 PM
I get a lot of parcels delivered to me though the USPS because of sign collecting though.
The only valid use for the USPS. :-D
Even though she is an adult, I still send my daughter "no occasion" cards about once every three or so weeks, a practice I started when she started college.
I don't do Christmas cards. Nothing against Jesus, it is just that I don't get real personal Christmas cards, just mass mailed ones from politicians and some businesses, so I don't have any to return.
I have to pay tax quarterlies, which the state requires a paper check, and the county property tax, so that is 5 more a year.
That is it. Everything can be done on line today.
Quote from: JoePCool14 on March 19, 2021, 09:12:19 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on March 18, 2021, 07:16:32 PM
I get a lot of parcels delivered to me though the USPS because of sign collecting though.
The only valid use for the USPS. :-D
Amazon has kept them afloat for at least a decade now.
Basically twice a year.
1) When I have to do my fantasy football payouts and a couple of my friends are too lazy to get Venmo.
2) Christmas for anything I didn't buy on another website (Amazon, etc.)
All bills are e-pay.
Chris
Unfortunately, I still have to send a money order once a month to pay a bill, which wasn't an issue until recent months when DeJoy ratfucked the USPS. Since then, very little has been delivered on time and the person I send the money orders to has been bitching for the same reason. Hell, my aunt & uncle mailed out a Christmas card from Michigan in mid-December and it didn't show up in my mailbox until late February. Up until last year, it only took 4-6 days for their cards to get here.
Quote from: LM117 on March 24, 2021, 12:23:37 PM
Unfortunately, I still have to send a money order once a month to pay a bill, which wasn't an issue until recent months when DeJoy ratfucked the USPS. Since then, very little has been delivered on time and the person I send the money orders to has been bitching for the same reason. Hell, my aunt & uncle mailed out a Christmas card from Michigan in mid-December and it didn't show up in my mailbox until late February. Up until last year, it only took 4-6 days for their cards to get here.
We have that issue with our rent check occasionally. Our landlords live in Utah, so we can't exactly run it up to them anymore.
I can't recall having mailed anything since when I sent in my voter registration form, which was in 2016.
Outbound mail: Once or twice a month for random paperwork or stuff that I can't take care of online.
Inbound mail: Tons.
Mailed our taxes, because I have a weird HSA funding from an early retirement settlement that doesn't let me e-file.
Never, but I get college stuff in the mail.
An average of twice a month; someone's always having a birthday. We still send / exchange some photographs of our kids to some family members twice a year, though we haven't had "professional photos" in over two years (my amateur shots seem to be good enough).
If I'm not counting stuff like Amazon returns or the occasional selling of something on eBay, legitimately not more than 2-4 times a year. I just got a bill from my dentist, and mailing that back to pay it will be the first time I've sent something in the mail all year. And I could accomplish the same by calling them, but if online pay isn't an option, I guess mailing it is the lesser of two evils. I don't even buy full books of stamps (I buy like 5 at a time), because I'll lose them before I manage to use them all.
As a Federal employee, one of the health care plan options I have is the Letter Carriers plan, even though I'm not USPS. To opt in to the plan, I have to pay annual dues to their association. The dues can only be paid by a check mailed via USPS.
Aside from that, there are usually one or two other times a year that I need to mail paper documents somewhere, but it's getting more and more rare.