…when you get a mail notification and get kind of excited because hey…you’ve got mail! And then you open your inbox and it’s just a bill.
What a downer.
The funny thing is, I remember when good ol’ snail mail used to feel the same way. Especially when I was in college! I’d head to the front desk at my dorm in the afternoon, hoping to find something cool in my little mailbox, and feeling bummed when it was a bill or junk mail, or a flyer advertising the “Spring Fling” or whatever.
Nowadays I don’t get much snail mail. The occasional bill, tax-related document, and two magazines (Real Simple and Lucky, until it runs out). Instead of regular mail for correspondence I use email; instead of newspapers and magazines I (mostly) read RSS feeds; and instead of paper bills I generally use online banking and e-statements. Junk mail still comes but not in as much bulk as it used to. The junk/spam that ends up in my email mostly gets filtered out - GMail is awesome with the spam filtering.
I still hate getting bills though - e-bills or otherwise.
