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Corporate networks tend to keep printer logs for extremely long durations. Also, printers at home are incredibly useful. I'm surprised more people don't have t
by asdajksah2123 4y ago
Corporate networks tend to keep printer logs for extremely long durations.
Also, printers at home are incredibly useful. I'm surprised more people don't have them. Especially now that online shopping (and therefore online returns) are so much more common and require printing return labels.
- HideousKojima 4y agoAmazon returns no longer require printing out labels, so someone who does most/all their online ordering via Amazon wouldn't need a printer.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoI need to print return stickers for Amazon in EU.
- flo123456 4y agoInteresting. I’m germany we love paper but amazon returns work without the need to print a label at home.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoIn Austria you do need to print the label. How dos returning without a label work? I mean how does the post know where to ship the package?
- HideousKojima 4y agoAt least in the US, Amazon has arrangements with major shipping companies like UPS and FedEx. So if you want to return something, Amazon says "Bring the item to your local UPS store and have them scan this QR code." The QR code gives UPS the shipping information it needs.
- yamtaddle 4y agoI just did a similar return for an Ebay package, but with USPS. At least in that case there's definitely a label, it's just a matter of who prints it. You could print it yourself from an attachment on the email, or show a QR code at the post office and they'd print it.
- rtkwe 4y agoOnly for things bought and sold through amazon. If you get something sent directly from a seller returns have you print out a label.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoI have occasion to actually need to print something about twice a year. I don't know how it is that we live such drastically different lifestyles that you find them so incredibly useful.
- Karunamon 4y agoHonestly, printers have gotten so cheap that the pain in the ass they can save when needed would make them useful to have for even that low of a volume. Printing a return label means I don't have to drive to a shipper. Your cheapest printers nowadays can scan and sometimes fax, which is useful for when legal or other requirements force you to submit a signed document. I'm not a fan of digital tickets for travel and events due to the apps being garbage and the severe consequences in case of technical problems, so these are easily printed as well. As crappy as modern printers are, they provide an oversized amount of peace of mind for me.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoNone of those are significant problems in my life I guess, certainly not enough to justify even dedicating any space to a piece of electronic equipment that I will use infrequently enough to be frustrated by whatever way it has decided to not work when I do want to use it.
- LeafItAlone 4y agoI typically also only print 2-3 times a year as well. But those times are sensitive-ish documents (one being hard copies of my tax prep and return for my filing cabinet, even though it’s submitted electronically) and I don’t want them printed on a printer I don’t own (paranoia). (And my printer is not connected to the network, I connect via USB).
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago> one being hard copies of my tax prep and return for my filing cabinet ...what year is this? Like, I have some questions: 1) Why keep hard copies of documents created electronically when there are so many more redundant, more secure, and more convenient ways keep the electronic versions themselves? 2) What in God's name are you putting on your tax forms that warrants being that paranoid about who sees them?