Dearest Martha,
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Dearest Martha

Posted by Jenny Prater on Monday, May 24, 2010

Dearest Martha,

Loved your last post. And I’d encourage you to remove your checkbook from your purse as well – or any of the other zillions of articles that reside there. But given the fact that your purses are generally large enough to pass for suitcases, I fear that you will not be able to find your checkbook in order to remove it.

Please do not take this negatively. As you are the VP of a billing and payments company, I can appreciate your need to carry such large purses to accommodate all your personal bills and payment vehicles. 

Kind regards,
Jenny

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Sarah
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Checks and Bags
Reply #3 on : Fri May 28, 2010, 09:26:22
It sounds like Jenny is suggesting the end of checks as well as large handbags. Oh my!
pat
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Dear Abby
Reply #2 on : Thu May 27, 2010, 22:15:00
Dear Jenny,
While your stance reasonable and well articulated, I will have to kindly disagree. In our society of email and internet, the checkbook is one of the last standbys of a personal touch. To handwrite a bank note and subsequently document in one's check register, is a true accountacy.

I, for one, still write checks and prefer it to online bill pay and debit cards. I will continue to handwrite my IOUs as long as "they" keep making checks.

What would Dear Abby say?

Sincerely,
J. Patrick O'Brien, Jr.
St. Louis, MO

P.S. If I could have handwritten this blogpost on personal stationary and sent through US mail, I would have.
Betsy Gretzinger
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Large Purses and the Payment Industry
Reply #1 on : Thu May 27, 2010, 21:04:32
As a large purse carrier myself, I am very sensitive to plight of the lady-on-the-move. I'm also one commonly frustrated by being confronted with a "choice" at payment time.

Let me paint a picture for you. You're at the airport, it's a busy day. There are 40 people in line behind you, each with the less-than-pleasant attitude typical to an air traveler. The cashier quotes the damage. You begin the extensive fishing process required to get to a payment method out of the abyss you call your "purse". The man behind you snorts with annoyance. Martha, is the time you want to accidentally pull your checkbook out of your purse? I think not.

Moral of the story: A one stop payment method, which works for all needs and purchasing scenes is the ticket. Pun intended.

You two are funny, but I must offer this. Jenny, as someone that carries a purse comparable in size to Martha's...well, perhaps you shouln't be throwing stones. :)

Thanks for the fun take on payments and purses!

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