By: Susan Goldfein / Susan’s Unfiltered Wit Are you reluctant to share your age? Are you reluctant to share your email address? If you answered “yes” to the first question, and “no” to the second, and are an AOL user, you’re screwed! According to popular wisdom proffered by millennials, if AOL appears after the @, you’re fat, over 80, a technology dinosaur and live in the suburbs. Furthermore, AOL users are clinging to an antique and should never be taken seriously. About anything. Because we’re blithering idiots. Back in the day, if you wanted an email account and internet access, AOL was it. Their disks were everywhere, free for the taking. So we took. It was simple to establish an account, and soon the little yellow man was running across the computer screen, assuring you that your dial-up was working. That’s when I began using AOL. I did have a free “Hotmail” account for a while, but true to its name, it flooded my inbox with enticing ads for penile implants, pills to enhance my sexual prowess, and numbers to call if I was interested in a three-way. Eventually, Hotmail left me cold. Despite the fact that AOL email shaming is rampant, I won’t be intimidated. So to people who say, “Why do you still use AOL?” I say, “Why not?” If something’s been working for 20 years, why change? Why go through the trouble of contacting every person and entity you know or have been doing business with for two decades? AOL has good security, adequate storage, spam protection, friendly interface, and access to mail on my other devices. Do I really need By: Heather Latimer / Heather’s Self-Help Tips An aged lady complained to me that she was forced to ask a neighbor to get her mail from a cluster box at the end of the dead-end road on which she lives. I promised to look into the matter and thereafter inquired at the post office on her behalf. The postmaster informed me that there is a Hardship Mail Delivery Program. This may be made available to someone who is disabled, lives alone and has difficulty collecting mail due to a steep driveway or faraway location of the box. There is no preprinted application form so you must follow the below procedures instead: 1. Ask your doctor to write a statement confirming your mobility problem and why it makes access to your mailbox unsafe. 2. Write your own note giving the location of the offending mailbox plus your name, address, phone number, and email (if you have one) and attach it to the doctor’s letter 3. Place both in an envelope with a stamp on it and send to the: Postmaster, United States Postal Service, Las <strong>Vegas</strong>, Nevada. 18 Is Your Email Address Telling on You? Mailbox Out of Reach August 20<strong>19</strong> more? If someone invents an email account that vacuums and washes windows, I might consider switching. I am aware that cooler alternatives to AOL do exist, like the popular “gmail.” But I find Google so pushy. They always want to know where I am and are constantly offering to store my passwords. Frankly, I think they’re up to something. And what makes Google so cool anyway? Big deal that everyone shows up for work wearing T-shirts. And there’s “Yahoo.” But do I really want an email address that has the resonance of a drunken cowboy slapping his horse? Therefore, I will stand up to the derision, keep my AOL and continue to take comfort from the familiar voice informing me that I’ve got mail. But I can foresee a time in the future, perhaps when I meet my maker, that I might have to switch. Because in heaven, the only choice may very well be the “Cloud.” Susan Goldfein’s newest book, How to Complain When There’s Nothing to Complain About, is available at Amazon.com, BN.com, Read her blog at: www.SusansUnfilteredWit.com. Email Susan: SusanGoldfein@aol.com. A postal official will visit to determine if your condition warrants Hardship Service. Also s/he will check the exterior of your residence to determine a suitable site for a personal mailbox to become a fixture. Those details will be relayed to the USPS regional office and, if approved, installers will mount a mailbox close to your door. Heather Latimer is a nationally recognized specialist in making difficult subjects easy and author of 17 books. Her biography, and latest non-fiction “How To Overcome Once-Easy Tasks That Are Now Pains In The You-Know-What,” can be found at: amazon.com/ heatherlatimer/howtoovercomeonceeasy.
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