feannag

u/feannag@sh.itjust.works
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Lots of banks will send a check on your behalf. It withdraws the money that day so you can predict it rather than when the business cashes it. And you have proof the money was sent and your bank/credit Union has a stake in the fight if the business gets shay about it.

While I fully agree thing should be digital (mail or fax are you kidding me?), very few business have secure email set up, especially for PII and health data. And even if they did, most consumers don't want to deal with setting up encrypted email/PGP keys or anything like that.
Of course this could be solved with online portals to submit PDFs and things.

Well for most of that history people lived in walkable settlements and cities. Pompeii had fast food stalls. And more recently (relatively) food ordering direct through a restaurant was the norm. Pizza delivery dates back to the 19th century, which is checks notes more than 100 years ago. So yeah, access to food has changed a lot and it is nor unreasonable to expect your delivery driver not to toss your food into the street.

on I was there Gandalf... · c/memes · 4 pts · 20d

We could just use the radio bands, just with definition instead of frequency.
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