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On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 01:57:42 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> I just print the cards. That way I don't have to wait for them come in
> the mail. I guess I'm not so "anti-printer" that I won't use my printer
> when I need it.

Wait? State Farm may be too trusting. The send the cards along with the 
bill for the next period which isn't due for a month. I've sometimes 
wondered what would happen if I gave a cop a card that says 'Effective Jun 
06 2024 to DEC 06 2024' on NAY 15 2024?  

I think that's what happened the time I got stopped. When I shuffled the 
deck and threw out the old ones I actually threw out the valid one. It's 
always the same policy number.

I'm not anti-printer but I don't have much that needs to be printed. The 
last thing I printed was my ham license and I did that at work and that 
wasn't a show stopper. The last time I had to produce a license was when I 
took the Advanced exam. That was a while ago since the FCC dropped the 
class in 1999. I can still renew as Advanced and am stubborn enough to 
keep a license they don't make anymore.

Back in the '80s I did sort of hate printers. The company I worked for 
made lab apparatus and the data had to be printed. Printers weren't 
exactly standardized so we would send a gopher down the street to Computer 
World and buy a Okidata Buzzkill 3000. After we go that one figured out 
we'd send him back with some cock and bull story to exchange it for 
another brand.  The crappy little thermal printers were the worst.