letters

[Fishtail]

I find it hard to believe anyone has a hard time mailing a letter. I agree post offices are to be avoided like the plague, but nowadays stamps can be bought even in places like grocery stores. Plus, I assume you are buying stamps for other needs anyway so a stamp for a PGCA letter is just you steal from your wife's booklet.

Paypal? It's troublesome that so many people are falling back on Paypal to conduct business. Their fees? Well, I can't say I really care about 2% but what do I care about is Paypal's unethical policies and practices. I'm amazed that when people sign up for Paypal they think nothing of giving out their bank account information. That's a big deal. Why? You are giving a third party (probably one that is staffed by 20 year olds in India) the authority to unilaterally access and withdraw funds from your account. I don't even allow my wife to do that.

What's more, if you ever bother to read the fine print, once you give that agreement, you also give away the ability to end that agreement. Only Paypal can discontinue it.
What that means is if you get into a dispute with Paypal and decide to "show them a thing or two" by calling your bank and having them disallowed, your bank will take Paypal's side and tell you to get lost.

Not for me, brother.

[jeffkinser]

My 2 cents:

Disclaimer: My background is Computer Database Design and ecommerce Design so I am a little biased.

I would support this idea as it would be pretty easy to implement with fairly inexpensive software. Even using a traditional CC payment instead of Paypal is really pretty easy.

Too me, the first step would be to have a "letter lookup" routine. We would put in our serial number and the system would respond with "letter available" or "letter not available". Then we just mail in the check and letter like normal. This would eliminate questions on the board about if info is available as well as having to respond to "letter not available" situations by the committee.

The next progression would be adding the payment online.

Jeff Kinser

[10 bore]

Originally Posted by greg conomos

I find it hard to believe anyone has a hard time mailing a letter. I agree post offices are to be avoided like the plague, but nowadays stamps can be bought even in places like grocery stores. Plus, I assume you are buying stamps for other needs anyway so a stamp for a PGCA letter is just you steal from your wife's booklet.

Paypal? It's troublesome that so many people are falling back on Paypal to conduct business. Their fees? Well, I can't say I really care about 2% but what do I care about is Paypal's unethical policies and practices. I'm amazed that when people sign up for Paypal they think nothing of giving out their bank account information. That's a big deal. Why? You are giving a third party (probably one that is staffed by 20 year olds in India) the authority to unilaterally access and withdraw funds from your account. I don't even allow my wife to do that.

What's more, if you ever bother to read the fine print, once you give that agreement, you also give away the ability to end that agreement. Only Paypal can discontinue it.
What that means is if you get into a dispute with Paypal and decide to "show them a thing or two" by calling your bank and having them disallowed, your bank will take Paypal's side and tell you to get lost.

Not for me, brother.

I do have a hard time; that's why I posted this, It does not have to be pay-pal, and you don't have to do it, you could still mail your letters. How about the checks they have to send back because of no records or checks made out for 2 letters and only info on 1 gun, now they have to cut a refund check, now is that's ez ?, scott

[C.O.B.]

If the PAY-Pal account is already set up for the PGCA membership how hard would be to use it for the letters also?