There are a few readers who occasionally correspond with me by email. They are aware of the fact that I do not check my inbox on a regular basis and it can sometimes be a few days, or weeks, before I reply.
I am retired but even when I was still working for a living it neither required nor involved electronic communication, by voice or by written word. Driving a local delivery van was this loner’s idea of a perfect job in the twenty first century!
I’m a technophobe when it comes to communication, probably a throwback to my time spent working in the telegraph office and switchboard on British Rail. My mobile telephone does not accept text messages, it is possible to get this feature disabled but Vodafone took a lot of persuading before they would agree to doing so. In fact my mobile spends most of its time either with a flat battery or switched off, you’ve got more chance of getting an answer on the land line. When making a call I will hang up if I get through to an answering machine, maybe I’ll try again later, maybe I’ll not bother.
I am of an era before instant gratification was expected. It used to be perfectly acceptable to stick a stamp on a letter and send it by post. This method of communication still works, though not at the speed youngsters demand!
Anyways, I am digressing from emails. I logged into my AOL mailbox this morning (31/5/23) to find that the layout had been significantly changed and I could not find anything other than adverts. This when browsing using AdBlockPlus. In trying to delete these I think I may have cleared all incoming messages received in the last fortnight.
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