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Thursday, March 7, 2019

Quicken BillPay

Have a lot of criticisms about Quicken BillPay Support but have been a happy Quicken BillPay client for nearly 20yrs.

 

Hope Quicken will address my concerns but is now working again.

 

Quicken BillPay gives me control of my bills, puts everything in one place for review with activity notifications that give me time to respond.  I recommend Quicken BillPay to anyone that need more control over their bills.

 

 

USPS Informed Delivery

Informed Delivery is a consumer-facing feature that gives eligible residential consumers the ability to digitally preview their mail and manage packages scheduled to arrive soon. Users can see images of the exterior address side of incoming letter-size mail and package tracking information on Priority Mail, Priority Mail Express, and other trackable parcels via email notification, online dashboard, or mobile app. Color images from participating mailers may also be included. See informeddelivery.usps.com for additional information and limitations.

While Informed Delivery is available for most addresses, it is not available for all. Some consumers may not be eligible to receive images of their mail pieces and may only be able to track packages with Informed Delivery. Your ability to sign up for Informed Delivery is dependent on living at an eligible residential address and the ability to verify your identity.

As a business user you are not eligible to participate in the Informed Delivery program. If you want to participate, please create a new USPS account and register as a personal user.

You have to create an account at USPS but its free!

Just signed up myself for Informed Delivery, just sounds like a good idea..

 

https://usps.com

 

 

Church Bulletins

 

 

They're Back! Church Bulletins! Thank God for the church ladies with typewriters.

These sentences (read carefully) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced at church services. 

 

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The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.  

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Scouts   are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

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The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on the Water. ' The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.'

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Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.

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Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help  

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Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.  

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For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.  

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Next Thursday there will be try-outs for the choir. They need all the help they can get. 

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Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.  

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A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.  

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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice.

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Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.

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Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.

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The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.  

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Pot-luck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.

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The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

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This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.

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The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next 
Sunday.
  

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Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM . Please use the back door.

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The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

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Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.

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The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: 'I Upped My Pledge-–Up Yours.'

 

 

 

 

Broccoli Latkes

Was out of 3-pepper mix and found chopped Broccoli so used it instead.

They turned out great!  I add a cup of shredded cheese so you could smell Broccoli-Cheese.

 

Current recipe is:

  • Package of Loaded Mash Potatoe instant mix
  • 1-1/3 LB of frozen shredded potatoes
  • 6 OZ of frozen vegetables  
  • 1 cup shredded cheese (any variety) Mozzarella is my favorite
  • 2 Eggs
  • ½ cup Half-N-Half milk
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • Turmeric, Garlic Sault, and Seasoning to taste

 

Mix all dry and frozen ingredients first and completely mix and allow frozen potatoes and veggies to thaw for an hour.

This allows Mash Potatoes to absorb the moisture then add eggs, Half-N-Half, and mix completely.

Add Olive oil and continue mixing until regular consistency.

 

Spray pan with olive oil and measure each Latke.

Bake at 425° for 25 min

 

 

Amazon Music

I’m a fan of Amazon music but they don’t make it easy.

 

Prime Music is one of the benefits to Amazon Prime membership, includes over 2 million songs.

 

Amazon Music Unlimited allows access to Tens of millions of songs for $7.99/month.

For the last 3 months have had Amazon Music Unlimited for 99¢, it expires on 2/25

 

Echo Plan: For about half the price of Amazon Music Unlimited, you can instead choose the "Echo plan," which offers all the benefits of Unlimited but can be streamed only to one device–and that device is your Amazon Echo (or Dot or Tap). 

 

Natural Echo Maybe the most fun Music Unlimited / Echo Plan exclusive, however, are the numerous additional Echo commands that are unlocked. For example: 

  • "Alexa, play happy pop music" 
  • "Alexa, play the song with the lyrics 'when the levee breaks'" 
  • "Alexa, play Adele's newest single

 

As they add features then the Echo Plan @ $4/month might be worth it but working on my own GeckoRadio Music App that will mix your music with news and science from podcasts.

 

 

 

Monday, February 18, 2019

Quicken BillPay support is very poor

Called Quicken BillPay support again to find out why my account still wasn't activated and they told me it was activated but I had to logon to my bank and look for Quickens test deposit again and none were found.

 

Then she told me it was on 2/7/19 that $0.02 was deposited from some ABC9KP named company and fond it and was finally able to use Quicken BillPay again.   First contacted Quicken BillPay support Nov 15, 2018, so only took them 95 days.

 

What makes me mad is that:

·         My account was active since 2/7 but they just didn't notify me!

·         They never notified me what account to look for to verify the account or even that they accepted my voided check. No email or calls.

·         When I called Quicken BillPay support my call was refused because my account was under review.

·         Biggest complaint is that there was no continuity when contacting Quicken BillPay support

o   Unless you write down the ticket number they won't acknowledge that you have called before even though they store your phone number to block them when convenient.

 

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Quicken BillPay Support

I’ve been struggling to activate a Quicken BillPay account and they have proven to have the worst support system that I’ve seen in 30yrs.

 

When you call they give you a 10 digit support code, if you forget the code the so have they.

 

If you call without the code they act as if you never called before.

 

But when you call about an open support ticket then they tell you that it is being looked into and hang up without ever asking the 10 digit support code, so they knew from my phone number that I’d called before.

 

Bottom line: Quicken BillPay will do whatever they can to ignore support requests, they only remember you when they want to ignore your calls.