CHANGES ARE COMING

and some changes already here.


Not only are we losing the Greatest Generation but we are experiencing changes to our everyday life.
The following is from an Unknown source:

The Post Office

Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills. Junk mail has diminished significantly since the Great Recession started.

And bills will not be mailed in the future as companies transform to online payments.

The Check

Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never pay your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.

How many checks do you write a month? If you are not paying your bills online, you should at least investigate – easy to do and doesn’t take as much time and “free”.

The Newspaper

The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.

How does the USA Today newspaper continue to print when circulation declines daily for metro-papers? The Charlotte Observer has dramatically decreased in size over the past several years. The local community paper seems to be thriving rather than the regional paper.

More changes coming.....