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Nothing happening in the restoration universe?
Same me, different spelling!
I think the forum members are still unsure if this site is still functioning - usually takes a while for the site to come up, but it responds quickly once it does come up.
I trust you survived the tornadoes from a ouple of weeks ago?
Feature everyone is gun shy and reasonably so.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Yep! They went right around me!
I'm here Penny - but some might argue I'm not all here....
I had a CT scan today so that may provide photographic evidence wether I'm all here or not
I have been wondering - here, there, everywhere.
Paid my property tax with a check mailed July 17. Mailed from the same county that the county seat is - Check wasn't cashed until August 15. Post Office to Post Office it had 15 miles to travel. Leads to the question - is it the Post Office fault or is it the County property accounting system.
Comcast is another one that has issues - I pay them on the first of the month on both my accounts with them - the Maryland account is generally credited by the 10th of the month. The Florida account - the July check 'never arrived'; and I paid the double bill in August and it took until the 16th for that check to get processed by the bank.
Is the Post Office falling apart; or are Accounting Departments in both Government and Private Business suck?
That's what EFT is for.
BackshopThat's what EFT is for.
NOBODY gets electronic authority to remove money from any of my bank accounts.
I accept money electronically, my Railroad Retirement and my Company Pension deposit on the first of every month.
Considering all the electronic identity theft taking place I view EFT access to MY accounts puts those accounts in danger.
BaltACDNOBODY gets electronic authority to remove money from any of my bank accounts.
That's the right philosophy and one I strive to use. But lately AT&T tells me it'll cost me $10 a month to get a paper bill. I gave in on that; I hope it doesn't come back to bite me in the caboose.
BTW Balt, I was impressed to read what you wrote a few days ago about those very old rails in Kent. I remember seeing them and thinking they looked small, like Shaker Rapid rails (80 lb). I think the late 19th century dates on them probably means they were from B&O's predecessor line (P&W, c.1882) and then re-used as yard tracks when the rails were upgraded.
NKP guy BaltACD NOBODY gets electronic authority to remove money from any of my bank accounts. That's the right philosophy and one I strive to use. But lately AT&T tells me it'll cost me $10 a month to get a paper bill. I gave in on that; I hope it doesn't come back to bite me in the caboose. BTW Balt, I was impressed to read what you wrote a few days ago about those very old rails in Kent. I remember seeing them and thinking they looked small, like Shaker Rapid rails (80 lb). I think the late 19th century dates on them probably means they were from B&O's predecessor line (P&W, c.1882) and then re-used as yard tracks when the rails were upgraded.
BaltACD NOBODY gets electronic authority to remove money from any of my bank accounts.
I have not seen such a charge on my AT&T billing. That being said I don't trust AT&T with the data about my banking accounts. How many times have their data bases been hacked and the data been put out on the 'dark web' for criminals and hackers to loot everything that is thereby laid in front of them.
I don't know that mine is the safest route to take, however, it is the only one that springs to my feeble mind.
I feel the same way. My pay goes into the account by direct deposit but all bills are paid by check and I always get a paper receipt when I use the ATM.
CSSHEGEWISCHI feel the same way. My pay goes into the account by direct deposit but all bills are paid by check and I always get a paper receipt when I use the ATM.
The other thing - in paying by check I KNOW what is in my account and WHEN it is in there. I use my bank's electronic banking tools to monitor my account and check upon when the checks I have issued have cleared.
If vendors had access to withdraw from my account - the amount in the account would be constangly changing and not under my DIRECT control in the short term - as any efforts to modify the vendors access to the account will likely be a long drawn out affair.
One other complaint I will register - when getting a new supply of checks, the number of checks that can be ordered at one time with my check supplier is now 80 instead of the 200 that was the standard order size in the past.
I pay most of my bills with a credit card and then just do a manual transfer to pay them off when they are due. That way, I'm earning miles/points on my mandatory purchases.
BackshopI pay most of my bills with a credit card and then just do a manual transfer to pay them off when they are due. That way, I'm earning miles/points on my mandatory purchases.
Some vendors do not support billing a credit card - they want bank access or nothing. I have several vendors that bill one of my credit cards; that still gives me a measure of safety as there are rules that apply to credit cards about 'fraudlent charges' that don't apply to direct payments from bank accounts.
Several weeks ago I was looking for a shipment that was coming via USPS and I had been tracking it through the USPS tracking system. During this period of time I got an e-mail from what was supposedly USPS identifying some sort of problem - as I activated the link within the e-mail it then asked for money - SCAM SCAM SCAM. If I had not been actively tracking a shipment I would not have given the e-mail a second thought and deleted it immediately.
If you hover your cursor over the sender's email address, it will tell you who really sent the email.
BackshopIf you hover your cursor over the sender's email address, it will tell you who really sent the email.
When the Iconography of the e-mail appears to be correct - hovering the sendee is not, for me, the first reaction. When the ask for money was presented then hovering the sendee's address came into play.
A unusual happening. My daughter's daughters have their birthdays one week apart, one is Aug. 5, the other is Aug. 12. I sent each a card on the Thursday before their birthday on Monday.
Talking to my daughter last night - the card for the Aug. 5 birthday has not arrived, the card for the Aug. 12 birthday has arrived but hasn't been opened. Today Aug. 23 I get an envelope from USPS that contains the check that was placed in the Aug. 12 card??????? The check looks like it has gotten 'scrunched' around in a sorting machine - not cut or torn but bent up a bit. No idea where the Aug. 5 card and check are.
I'm just looking in again now as the site seems to be kinda-sorta stable now that Firecrown's taking over.
I don't know about the other mags but there's a fine introductory column from Craig Fuller, the top man at Firecrown, in this quarter's issue of "Classic Trains." Well worth reading, he believes in the viability of print and seems to understand the business.
One of the takes from his intro column in Trains was that he learned a few lessons about magazine publishing from the Flying acquisition. I considered that to be a good sign in that he is willing to learn.
From Wayne "Firelock" Antoniazzi:
I'm not dead!
Never signed out. Kept trying to get it to work about 3 or 4 times a day as long as it was down. Featured it was gone for good but kept trying.
Thanks for the very informative post! I was wondering why there were so few members showing up on the forum. My thinking was that members were giving up with the 40 seconds needed for the forum to login - looks like ones posting were fortunate enough not to have logged out.
BaltACDA unusual happening. My daughter's daughters have their birthdays one week apart, one is Aug. 5, the other is Aug. 12. I sent each a card on the Thursday before their birthday on Monday. Talking to my daughter last night - the card for the Aug. 5 birthday has not arrived, the card for the Aug. 12 birthday has arrived but hasn't been opened. Today Aug. 23 I get an envelope from USPS that contains the check that was placed in the Aug. 12 card??????? The check looks like it has gotten 'scrunched' around in a sorting machine - not cut or torn but bent up a bit. No idea where the Aug. 5 card and check are.
I sent another card Sept. 1 as the replacement for the Aug. 5 card. It never arrived. Finally hand delivered another when we got together to celebrate my September birthday. What is USPS coming to. The September condo fee payment for my Florida condo never made it to the addressee.
When it comes to paying bills, NOBODY has access to WITHDRAW money from my account(s). After sending out my payments, I review the activity on my account(s) to insure that the checks are being paid.
Just got an email that this site and others may be working again.
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