I pay so many of my bills electronically that I don't open them when they come in the mail. I'm finally cancelling mail delivery of them. Which is when I realised that at least one provider (T Mobile) is about to start charging me for sending me paper.

That sounds like a truly hateful piece.

It truly was.

I pay so many of my bills electronically that I don't open them when they come in the mail.

I do this, and then with all the travel I was doing this spring I've kind of started forgetting to check my mail at all. Earlier this summer I actually wondered if I'd not actually been invited to a wedding I'd made travel plans to attend, until it occurred to me it'd been over a month since I opened my mailbox. (Luckily it was still two days before the RSVP date.)

The article by Wilson seems to have a duel personality --- in the sam e sentence she praises and mocks JC Pennys - so odd.

and she is mean - to the point where she sounds ignorant. I don't shop a lot in JC penny's -- mostly because the one here is really messy. But it is the place where I found a pair of jeans for 1.99.

How can wilson honestly write a column for the Times and say that she expects her article to be 1,300 women in Connecticut and Manhattan, plus "a couple of gay guys"? WTF?

I have become super strict about mail. Everything that is not a bill or something I need for work gets thrown away immediately. I still have a hard time with birthday cards and stuff, though -- my instinct is to save them, even knowing I never ever go back to reread them.

How can wilson honestly write a column for the Times and say that she expects her article to be 1,300 women in Connecticut and Manhattan, plus "a couple of gay guys"? WTF?

She had no ideeeaaaaa people read the New York Times outside of Manhattan! Pfui.

How can wilson honestly write a column for the Times and say that she expects her article to be 1,300 women in Connecticut and Manhattan, plus "a couple of gay guys"? WTF?

Yes, thank you! It's like yet another person gets introduced to the internet, except Wilson's been publishing on the internet for years.

you don't have to think Internet to know that the new york times is read all of the us and is available in much of the world

It's not that she didn't know, it's that the 1300 women in CT/Manhattan and the couple of gay guys are the only ones with any independent reality in her mind. They're the ones who matter. Why would you stop to consider the reaction of people who aren't real?

I've kind of started forgetting to check my mail at all

I managed once to get mine so jammed up that my mailbox couldn't be opened individually--the postal service person had to open the whole thing and take my mail out for me. So I'm better about it now. That was shameful.