i'd chalk it up to imagination if i weren't quite so familiar with the corporate mentality so instead i will call them rat bastards who either 1.) think i am a completely mindless prole or, 2.) are so narcissistically arrogant they are not mindful of exactly how transparent they are ( or, is tranparency the aim? nah... i'm running with arrogant...we just had four years of a ceo presidency and we know from hubris )...in either context they have sent me ( for the second time ) an email expressing their deep concern...except their real concern is a subtext glossed over by snazzy graphics...
we will all receive our "last bill" one fine day...mortality ( or, possibly, free energy ) is not what they are on about...they want to make sure i am current with what i owe them for helping to warm the planet ( even though i pay a premium to receive [they say] wind generated electricity )...they are concerned and want me to "take steps" because...
"customers have recently reported delayed bills and payments" because covid-19 is jacking around the postal service and we cannot have the overworked and underpaid carriers fucking up the cash flow...no sir, that will not do...
so, generously, they have offered me a "$5 gift card from amazon, wallmart, target, starbucks, and more" ( possibly from the recently demolished joe's crab shack...who knows ) if i enroll in paperless billing by the end of the month...that they would save $6.60 on poatage in a year and be up $1.60 for each enrollee in unstated...add in the adminstrative costs of paper bills and we see who wins here...true, there would be less transport costs involved which might give the carriers and the climate a smidgen of a break..i am inclined to believe it is the shareholders we are really concerned about here however...eventualy they will follow the lead of others and simply slam us all into paperless billing...wondering if all their customers are wired to the net in these increasingly troubled times.
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