Kicking files

15Sep08

If there’s something I resent, it is files that you can kick. I just passed the better part of last night going over my real mail and filing it. I don’t do it as often as I should and if Debbie hadn’t kicked me to do it I probably would’ve never done it.

As I was going over the mail I noticed a few things. Of all the services and entities that offer to send statements and other junk through electronic mail, only the cellular company really stopped sending me a little forest to the mailbox. I registered at the credit card company at least twice but they completely ignored my request. Perhaps I should have send them a fax or a letter to that effect.

I also found out that I was getting ripped off by my bank and by an insurance company. The bank charged on of my credit cards 380 NIS as a membership fee. I am enraged but I highly doubt that there’s anything I can do about it. The insurance agency sends me a yearly renewal of the renter’s insurance and this year they hiked the payment by more than 150%. This I will get back, but I’m just happy I caught it now, about a month after they sent it.

Now I have a stack of papers marked with IMMIDIATE ATTENTION and ACTION REQUIRED!!! laying in my backpack. Once I’m done writting a powershell script I will start going over it.

When I recycled the medium sized rain forest that was the outcome of my activity, I remembered Lea’s post about recycling containers. The bin was ridiculously stuffed, and the tiny slit on the top was annoyingly small. I don’t enjoy shoving a hundred papers one by one when I’m on my way to work in the morning. Why can’t the bin open like a regular garbage bin? Are there so many people who would dump there their kitchen sink?

Many things in Israel are aimed to stop the small percent of people how are melcious at the expense of the vast majority of law abaiding people. I truly believe that making things easier by assuming that most people will do the right thing won’t only encourage social behaviour – it will be cheaper and save resources at the end.

When I grow up to be a politician, this will be one of the main issues in my campaign:

• Shorten the delay between the car’s red light and the pedestrian’s green light to encourage people to cross lawfully
• Eliminate the big system to validate unemployment payment by not requiring people to stand in the unemployment line once a week, just sign that they are still not working – and establish incredibly severe punishments to those how lie
• Remove the dumb rule that children under the age of 14 cannot ride elevators by themselves. Why make them feel like criminals as soon as they learn to read?

There are a million others. You’re very welcome to contribute.

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Tags: bank, online statement, papers, politics, recycle, tel aviv, unemployment