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I got screwed by this when I was traveling around Iraq and Afghanistan for a few years; I missed a $1.50 finance charge for about 110 days which went to collections, froze the account, killed auto billing for my health insurance and other stuff...

Switched to using earth class mail which scans all my incoming postal mail, deposits checks, etc which has been a huge improvement. (and was able to get all the consequences of missing the last $1.50 of a payment I hadn't seen in the mail reversed, after a lot of letters and phone calls).

Most postal mail is spam, mixed with a few important messages.



"Most postal mail is spam, mixed with a few important messages."

It's too bad we can't apply baysean algos to spam snail mail. (yes, I know sender pays and all that).




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