Subj : Re: Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu Feb 06 2020 02:31:54 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 31-Jan-2020 08:23 <=- BM>> That was pretty much my attitude. The "carrot on a stick" BM>> was view the pictures. Both my Mother and my Aunt have zero computer BM>> knowledge and seem to think they can't learn. OK, so I need to do BM>> something different; I selected a piece of hardware -- the digital BM>> picture frame -- which seemed to be ultra simple, and it doesn't look BM>> like it has anything to do with a computer. Wrote instructions that BM>> my Mother and Aunt should be able to understand. Both have people who BM>> can help. NB>> And you might be the one to finally actually walk them through the NB>> process at some point.... I suppose what they probably would have NB>> preferred was your sending them a package of all the pictures printed NB>> out so that they could put them into scrapbooks... or better yet, NB>> the completed scrapbooks.... :) BM> They would have preferred, I might have complied if not for the BM> shipping cost, especially overseas. Plus it seems a box undergoes BM> inspection by Austria Post and possibly subject to the 'I will accept BM> the package' documentation like what happened with the digital picture BM> frame I sent my Aunt (she says she signed the paperwork but ended up BM> being returned and I brought over in my luggage last summer). Yes, I remember that fiasco... Probably would have had to carry over the scrapbook for your aunt.... although you'd be ok for shipping one to your mother, USPS being a little less bureaucratic, perhaps... ;) Ah, well... You'll just have to give them personal demonstrations/hands on lectures when you visit them, I guess.... with a little exposure to actually using the picture frames, they might decide it's not quite so arcane after all... :) ttyl neb .... Decades of tradition unimpeded by progress. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .