>This is why for any store over the size of a mom and pop operation in a neighborhood, you can't just tell the owner who you know by name to put it on your acco

>This is why for any store over the size of a mom and pop operation in a neighborhood, you can't just tell the owner who you know by name to put it on your account, and instead for credit purchases you use a credit card company which acts as an intermediary and smooths problems over on both sides, and refuses to work with stores and people that are untrustworthy. Yet, if that store knows you, and wants to extend credit to you, they can. A difficulty with email is that it seems to be increasingly difficult for the recipients to have much control over the email they receive. I know of numerous instances where people are unable to get specific emails they want or need to receive to not be spam-foldered, or to be received at all. They may have no understanding of why this is the case, and even if they do, may have no ability to change it. The systems are often opaque and unchangeable, and involve organization- or provider-level choices before emails ever reach their accounts.