[tivert]

> Sure, your banking app crashes sometimes and annoys you. How about you delete it and instead take a bus to a postal office to pay your bills this way - no annoying apps involved, it will just take 1h instead of 1m.

Huh? Have ever actually paid a bill without using a computer? It doesn't work like you describe at all (unless you live in a really rural area or you're deliberately trying to make it difficult for yourself). Here's how it works:

1. Get a bill in the mail.

2. Open it, and write a check for the amount.

3. Put the check in the envelope, stick a stamp on that, and then put it all in your home's mailbox.

4. The mailman comes and picks it up, and it goes where it needs to go.

No buses, no trips to the post office required.

[frakt0x90]

I live in the suburbs of a large city in the US and I have to physically go to the post office whenever I mail something. My neighborhood has a weird matrix of mailboxes with no way to indicate to the postman that he needs to take something. So I have to drive to a post office every time I want to send mail. We even tried leaving a note in the box and that did not work. It doesn't take an hour but probably 20 minutes round trip.

[gnopgnip]

Every USPS approved cluster mailbox will have a mail slot for outgoing mail.

[crazygringo]

It depends on which country you're in.

In some countries bills need to be paid at any bank or at the post office, you can't mail a check. The bill basically has a bar code that that the bank scans, and you pay in cash. (Or you can scan it at your bank's ATM and deduct it from your account).

[ilyt]

The fuck is a "check" ? We don't have those here for decades.

[tivert]

> The fuck is a "check" ? We don't have those here for decades.

What's with the profanity? You obviously know what I'm talking about.

We have them in the US, and it's a wonderful technology that would apparently save globalreset an hour-long trip to the bank.

[_dain_]

Oh you mean like Erlang