Something better to do » American Express http://blog.kamens.us Musings of an indignant mind Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:35:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 American Express has a definition of “electronically” I haven’t heard before http://blog.kamens.us/2009/10/16/american-express-has-a-definition-of-electronically-i-havent-heard-before/ http://blog.kamens.us/2009/10/16/american-express-has-a-definition-of-electronically-i-havent-heard-before/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:36:20 +0000 jik http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=1020 I recently received a letter from American Express confirming that I’d enrolled in online bill payment.  I received the letter on paper, in an envelope, with a stamp on it, in the mailbox on my porch.

The final sentence of the letter, all the way at the bottom, below the signature, reads as follows:

You are receiving this information electronically because you have indicated your desire to do so via your acceptance of the Pay by Computer terms and conditions.

I wonder if this definition of “electronically” has something to do with the South African company that recently sent a bunch of data by carrier pigeon faster than the country’s biggest ISP could have sent it.

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