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(08-17-2021, 09:20 PM)ss20ts Wrote: I still have 1 transcript that I have to mail to the college. They then print out the transcript and mail it. It takes a minimum of 3 weeks from the time they receive the paperwork from me. This amazingly slow service costs $14 each time! I keep telling them there's this thing called Parchment. Look into it. It's 2021 not 1921.
At this point, that's just embarrassing. Do they also still have dial telephones? (The school I attended still did, in 1989, but it was because the town's tiny phone company, later acquired by GTE, did not support touch tone calling.)
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(08-17-2021, 10:43 PM)studyingfortests Wrote: (08-17-2021, 09:20 PM)ss20ts Wrote: I still have 1 transcript that I have to mail to the college. They then print out the transcript and mail it. It takes a minimum of 3 weeks from the time they receive the paperwork from me. This amazingly slow service costs $14 each time! I keep telling them there's this thing called Parchment. Look into it. It's 2021 not 1921.
At this point, that's just embarrassing. Do they also still have dial telephones? (The school I attended still did, in 1989, but it was because the town's tiny phone company, later acquired by GTE, did not support touch tone calling.)
Wait, they
actually used rotary phones and not push-button phones? In '89, push-button phones had a switch you could use if your exchange didn't support touch-tone dialing.
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(08-18-2021, 02:34 AM)rachel83az Wrote: Wait, they actually used rotary phones and not push-button phones? In '89, push-button phones had a switch you could use if your exchange didn't support touch-tone dialing.
Yes those ancient, wide phones with a dial and 10 mechanical buttons at the top, one for each line. By the time I left ('92 or '93), they were replacing them with touch-tone. Apparently the switching center for the town (which was only about 10,000 people) was from the 1930s, and was not replaced until the mid-1980s, and the school didn't update its phone system for another 6 or 7 years.
I
hated those dial phones. If your finger slipped, it hit the hang-up cradle and disconnected your call. And of course, this was before wide use of cell phones, so no other real choice.
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(08-17-2021, 10:43 PM)studyingfortests Wrote: (08-17-2021, 09:20 PM)ss20ts Wrote: I still have 1 transcript that I have to mail to the college. They then print out the transcript and mail it. It takes a minimum of 3 weeks from the time they receive the paperwork from me. This amazingly slow service costs $14 each time! I keep telling them there's this thing called Parchment. Look into it. It's 2021 not 1921.
At this point, that's just embarrassing. Do they also still have dial telephones? (The school I attended still did, in 1989, but it was because the town's tiny phone company, later acquired by GTE, did not support touch tone calling.)
They probably still use rotary phones. The really sad thing is that they launched an online degree program in the late 90's. They were one of the first SUNY schools to do this. They had quite a number of online associate degrees in the late 90's and early 2000's. So this paper transcript with them makes absolutely no sense.
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