Staples-soon to be an antique

9 years ago

I just added staples to my stapler, from the same box I had bequeathed to me from the last assistant, over ten years ago! I hate how the top sags, but I only see it like, maybe, once a year. Not worth fixing.

I remembered hearing back in the 80s that the world was going paperless and how incredulous a thought that was. I just scoffed when I heard that! I was working at an insurance carrier and we literally moved paper all day long. We had boxes of files filled with paper. The mail would come in and be opened, stamped and then given a claim number by clerks. Then, they'd be matched to a policy holder's physical file. Lord help you if you couldn't find the file (someone put it back wrong or took it without leaving a pulled file sheet. Or... the file would be filed in a place when transposing numbers, filed backwards (the tab inside the cabinet)... I can tell you all the mistakes made in filing, it was my specialty to find all the missing files in my later years there).

All day long adjusters would put the finished files back onto the shelves, and in the morning the first thing the clerks would do before opening, stamping, and adding claims numbers would be to file them back. UGH! How we hated doing that! You'd get torn clothes, ripped up hands, all the papercuts, and worse, staples would hurt you. I'd go home every Friday night and sleep in cotton gloves with my hands slathered in vaseline just to get "normal" cuticles and heal all those cuts.

And now, I never print a letter, only add the letter body to an electronic letterhead, add an electronic signature and email it off. Such a short time to make staples obsolete. Almost.

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Alice_sj
9 years ago
I used 2 boxes of staples in 10 months this year. As a teacher, paperless is not reasonable. The school says they're going to go towards paperless, but students still have to learn to write and type. Students will still make booklets for projects and use paper for activities. Hands-on and active learning are just as big right now as the paperless idea. The more pieces of paper required for a project, the more necessary staples become.
rob333 (zone 7b)
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9 years ago
and glue! My son went through buckets of glue last year. School is NOT paperless. Can't see how it would be? You are right about that!

For me, in two industries (the one I am in now is research), it's really going that way. Mostly, in the past five years. For instance, we don't mail copies of journal articles any more. That has stopped completely. One would mail a card from some place around the world asking you for your article you published, then you'd copy the journal, and last, mail it to them--on the other side of the world. By the time you did all that, the research was practically outdated. Sheesh! Maybe not. But, now it's all deposited in one place, or on the journal's site and it's PDF sent instantly.
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Really?! Wow. Glad I left that industry. Wow. No drives? Wonder why? Weirdness. Dropbox might've worked?
angelaid
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I bought a new laptop in November. No disc drive. Had to buy an external drive.
Elmer J Fudd
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An optical drive is not an automatic feature on PCs these days. They're left off to make them cheaper, smaller/lighter (in the case of laptops) or both.

At insurance companies or any big company with a lot of office workers on desktop PCs, software can be loaded and managed centrally by the IT staff over a network. They would buy drive-less PCs to save money and perhaps to make personal (non-work related) activities more difficult to do.
Jasdip
9 years ago
Oh I love paper!! I'm addicted. I'm actually picking up a grocery bag of legal sized paper tomorrow from Freecycle.
I'm happy! Gosh, I'm so easy to please.
lisa_fla
9 years ago
The schools around here are easing into digital curriculum-no textbooks. The students still use some paper, but not as much as past years.
Tally
9 years ago
My husband and I were laughing about this the other night. He had to order new checks from the bank. The last order he placed was in 2006.

All our bills come electronically and he pays them through the bank online. Purchases are all made through credit or debit card, or through Paypal online.

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Lindsey_CA
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"My husband and I were laughing about this the other night. He had to order new checks from the bank. The last order he placed was in 2006."

I write maybe two checks a year. It's been so long since I ordered checks that the place for me to write the date says 19____.
susanjf_gw
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every soccer season, softball, ect I use the stapler faithfully, for the dozen schedules from 4 kids for the 9 grands...
chisue
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Sob! I am almost out of staples for the Swingline mini-stapler I bought for college. I have bought the staples themselves since then, but not for years. Now I can't find any.
rob333 (zone 7b)
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OH! I was only kidding. Obsolete? Whoda thunk it?

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