The professional thing to say here is “spam prevention”.
Because sms respects my time. I can check it when I can I do not need to stop everything I am doing for it. A call doesn’t, I have to stop everything to pick it up.
I’m the same way with my mail.
I’m a millennial - I don’t check my mailbox for 6+ weeks at a time.
If I order something, then I know about it and expect it at my door (because it’s fedex, amazon, or ups).
Otherwise, it will have to wait until I happen to remember I have a mailbox.
For example, with bills - I expect you to have my email address and use it, because I supplied it whenever I established xyz account.
Exceptions:
- Around the holidays when people send out holiday cards!
- For a local property tax exemption, my county refuses to email it. Their requirement for receiving the exemption is that you live here locally, and part of their way for verifying that, is by sending the request form to your local physical address.
I don’t check my mailbox for 6+ weeks at a time.
That seems dangerously negligent.
I’ve had a P.O. box for years because I don’t want to disclose my home address when I register domains. Maybe I should check it one of these days…
Welfare checks have been conducted over less.
When it’s too cold out to wanna walk all the way up there, I’ve gone for 3-4 months at a stretch. All I ever get is garbage anyway, so it’s only ever mattered twice, and one of those was an expected package.
No one’s ever called me a welfare check :(
I’m in the military lol. The government definitely knows I’m alive by 0600 sharp every morning.
If you live in the US, you can get your mail sent to your email inbox every day you are getting something that is directly addressed to you (i.e., not spam). It’s called USPS Informed Delivery.
It doesn’t always work if they get your address slightly off (say they put STE instead of APT), but it’s a lot better than nothing.
Just signed up for this, thank you. It’s fantastic!
Now I can check my mail from the comfort of my bed. USPS email comes daily at 0400.
Sms aren’t limited by my availability…you can send them at 4am in the morning so i can ignore them for 2 weeks for no reason. Meanwhile if you call me at 4am I’d still be awake but it’s none of your business why and i wouldn’t answer them anyway so why bother.
no email?
Annoyance issue.
--late BoomerI would love to get contacted by telephone. I hate SMS.
Skill issue
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