Gone after 30 years

Today I closed an email account that I had since the early 1990's that was associated with my dial-up internet service provider(ISP). I had stopped using dial up service about 20 years ago but agreed to keep the email account because so many of my shopping/commercial accounts were affiliated with it. I was paying $10 per month.

A couple years ago the ISP raised the rent to $12 per month. Mind you, it had a very finite amount of storage capacity as opposed to many other free email providers that have unlimited storage. I tolerated the change.

This year they raised my price to $15 per month. They had crossed the event horizon. With black holes in outer space there is a boundary that even light cannot escape the gravitational pull of the black hole. I was going to close the email account.

It has taken months to reroute emails that had been going to the old one. I had to be reasonably certain that there weren't any important accounts that were still associated with the old account.

A few months ago I called the old ISP to express my displeasure and they lowered my price back to $10 per month. Today I called to cancel and they offered to lower it to $5 per month, but there was no going back. The account was now receiving only unwanted emails. I was spending 5-10 minutes a day going through the junk in case something worthwhile was still coming. I had to do it both on my phone and computer because it was a POP3 account and the emails were separately stored on each device.

I look forward to saving a little money and a lot of time.