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[-] NewWorldOverHere@kbin.social 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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:

  1. Around the holidays when people send out holiday cards!
  2. 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.
[-] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 54 points 1 year ago

I don’t check my mailbox for 6+ weeks at a time.

That seems dangerously negligent.

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Welfare checks have been conducted over less.

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

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 :(

[-] NewWorldOverHere@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m in the military lol. The government definitely knows I’m alive by 0600 sharp every morning.

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

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...

[-] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
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[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I'm like this with email. I do a quick visual scan about once per week... or fortnight... because it's almost all SPAM, and no matter how many blocks and filters I create, it does little to hold back the tide of trash.

Everyone who matters knows the only way to reach me reliably is via text message.

I nearly missed a jury duty notice because of this habit. I only check if I know money or a specific bill is coming.

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[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Kahomono@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Annoyance issue.
--late Boomer

[-] Doug@midwest.social 33 points 1 year ago

You've got a point. A whole lot of boomers are annoyance issues leading us millennials to not answer our phones

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago

Why should I feel obligated to be available for a phone call?

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 30 points 1 year ago

The professional thing to say here is "spam prevention".

[-] Rom@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Why would they even ask that lmao. "Eat my entire ass" that's why, fuck you.

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

As an older millennial I use the phone just fine, thank you very much.

It's Facebook and other random proprietary crap being used for IRL communications (especially important stuff like community associations, etc.) that I can't deal with.

[-] arefx@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I refuse to use Facebook and any time I hear someone talking about using it I just think of how much better off everyone would be without it. I haven't used it in probably 5 years but I could only imagine it has got worse.

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[-] protput@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I make an exception for WhatsApp because I (and literally everyone in our country) uses this instead of SMS. I never use SMS.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago
[-] Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't mind people calling me if I didn't expect 90% of my calls to be scams.

[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

Genx and haven't liked to pick up the phone my whole life

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Same. I used the phone before there were other options, but I always hated it. I don't like being able to hear someone but not see them. It gives me anxiety.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

How did you make plans with friends before cell phones? You never talked with a boyfriend or girlfriend for hours on a landline?

[-] Cmot_Dibbler@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

That doesn't mean they liked talking on the phone.

[-] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Most likely I'd make plans face to face. I have spent too many hours on the phone with loved ones, but that's usually planned or expected. I don't like picking up the phone if I don't know who it is, and even then I'd often rather avoid. Just send me a message please instead.

[-] Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Im just autistic and can't hold an unrehearsed phone conversation, let alone irl conversation, to save my life.

[-] Ertebolle@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

"I can, I just don't want to be"

[-] TesterJ@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I once signed up for something that required separate home and cell phone numbers. Some shipping service or something. And it wouldn't let me put the same number for both. Like come on, nobody is paying for landlines nowadays. I ended up putting my parents' phone number for the home phone (which they coincidentally just got rid of this week.)

[-] maniclucky@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

(AreaCode) 867-5309 is your friend in this and for random "Insert your phone number for the rewards program" things.

[-] tryplot@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

fun fact: most phone companies do not allow that phone number to be given out due to too many people calling it as a direct result of that song.

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[-] Froyn@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

"My rate for voice services is $0.35 per minute. Ask about by bulk rate for 15, 30, or 60 minute increments when prepaid. Any calls without prepayment will be billed at the per minute rate, net30 terms. Please have a PO# ready when calling."

[-] cokane_88@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Antisocial is why

[-] Enasni@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[-] 22decembre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

"because I don't want it."

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

what kind of bs is that? 500 characters wouldn't be enough to fit my uneducated reply to that stupid question.

[-] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Shit I ignore texts for days too. 😒

[-] gdrhnvfhj@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 year ago

I would love to get contacted by telephone. I hate SMS.

[-] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Am I the only millennial that doesn't mind phone calls? Don't get me wrong, I very much prefer an SMS or email if it will suffice but phone calls tend to be quicker if you need something taken care of immediately.

[-] Screwthehole@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Phone calls are for immediate concerns that's why you need to answer your phone. No one will call you unless it's important

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[-] erockdanger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Where's the joke

/s

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Mine would be "antisocial."

[-] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Metaright@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Anxiety issue tbh

[-] akiratoriyama@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

UK visa website?

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