If it really wasnt a big deal, then why the thread? Dont get me wrong, it is your choice to post, and my choice to read or not, just seems like you put alot of thought and time (here and with D*) into something that wasnt a big deal.
Anyway, glad you got your card, hope everything else works out for you:up
OMG someone who read and saw that I paid for a card! Hopefully it gets here, one of my objections was to a new smart card was they go out by fedex, and down here they are just awful about loosing packages. I have had to file more lost or stolen package claims with Fedex 6 of them to date then I ever had with UPS 0 . I know it other areas of the country UPS sucks and Fedex is great so lets not start a fedex vs ups war.
So the CEO CSR as I call him said I could get it via regular mail an option the access card department did not offer me when I told them fedex looses anything and I requested a different carrier.
Now if I bought a card why am I doing all of this ?
Quite simple there are two types of people in the world
1. People who bitch about a situation and do nothing about it.
2. People who bitch about a situation and try to do something about it. Change will not happen sitting on my front yard drinking ice tea going I really hate that damn access card fee. A letter already went out to both my state senators and my congressman. I sent the same letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, and the two sitting democrat members and possible future fcc chairman canidates Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein. A letter is going to Chase Cary and John "darth vader" Malone offices with copies of the above letters . Now will this go absolutely nowhere I am 99% sure that it not going to go anywhere. But I know that I can say to my self I tried.
I spent a little over 3 hours dealing with this issue. spent little over 10 bucks in mailing the letters. Which was really 2 hours and 50 minutes too long and 10 dollars I could of went and bought a starbucks with but hey I had fun I am not stressing over it and I am keeping the faith that are government actually does something. ( I know too many jokes there )