# Payment By SnailMail?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payment-by-snailmail/660762>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 12, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payment-by-snailmail/660762 "2013-06-12T00:03:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payment-by-snailmail/660762/1 "2013-06-12T00:03:56Z")

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Your faulty server keeps dropping my login! And, my subscription is due soon! Can i just mail you a check?

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payment-by-snailmail/660762/2 "2013-06-12T00:12:24Z")

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(Sorry, didn;t mean to double-post… the SD Gremlin-Zombies got me! 😉

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payment-by-snailmail/660762/3 "2013-06-12T00:35:48Z")

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No, the online portal is the only way to pay.

Sorry you’re having problems, we need a new server. Badly, it would appear. ☹

Ed talks about it here. [Board performance problems - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692185)

This suspect this is the root cause of all our technical problems of late.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/payment-by-snailmail/660762/4 "2013-06-12T04:25:24Z")

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Can’t he just use PayPal to send a payment to the SDMB PayPal account, then send someone (perhaps TubaDiva?) his PayPal confirmation number? That’s how a lot of places handle subscriptions. This would eliminate the need for the board software to work with PayPal.