Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Waste Not, Want Not!

Will human ineptitude, in the end, lead to our demise as a species! I fear so.

How is it possible, in 2014, that businesses still have not migrated to electronic mail? I'm sitting, staring at a mountain of statements, newsletters, notifications and the like. Feeling very dismayed and terribly annoyed at the lack of urgency to implement a simple system change.

SANRAL!!! Offender number ONE! Envelopes stuffed with over five sheets of paper repeating themselves incessantly. Surely these can be delivered by email from a company that is able to electronically monitor your vehicle's every move remotely?

Truworths!!!! Really??? 2014 guys!!!! Never mind the zero balance statement I receive every month, Truworths is unable to send statements electronically. So don't bother calling and begging them to convert you, they simply  can't.

I would love to engage the services of anyone mathematically inclined or just available to do a cost analysis of this wasteful exercise called postage! Just to calculate how much food I could purchase instead. I do believe that the post office still might have a place in society - you'd have to give me a minute to think something up though - but for the most part, unless the law requires it for some insane reason, all correspondence could and should be electronic.

I am perplexed and overwhelmed with guilt at this pile paper destined for the trash. Even the thought that it will be recycled does not comfort me.

Come on people! Catch a wake up and get this sorted!