Just trying to do a post hold for an upcoming trip and find I can’t pay for it because every damm option requires a mobile phone number. 
TWINT - mobile phone
Post Finance - mobile phone as can’t pay any other way now unless you use their app
Credit card - mobile phone for supposed security
Good thing I didn’t leave it until the last minute to place the order.
You can get a smart phone for CHF50 nowadays.
How about you spend your time on a more noble cause?
I’ve never owned a TV in my life but I don’t bang on about not being able to watch Doctor Who !
You can always go down to the post office and do it over the counter. It will cost you a little bit more but you don’t need a mobile phone to do it.
Or you could move into the twenty first century and get yourself a cheap mobile phone just to use for such things.
I don’t want or need a mobile phone thank you. Yet time and again I’m being pushed towards having to get one just to do what should be a simple payment online.
Yes, may have to go into the post office and do it there. Why it should cost me more to do so though I don’t understand. The order’s ready and waiting just need to shove some money at Swiss Post.
I feel more and more discriminated against because I don’t use a mobile. Can’t pay for things without one, don’t get discounts at many places because I don’t have one.
God, it’s only Monday.
Don’t want is one thing. I think you need one though.
Just use it when needed and turn it off at other times and worry about more noble causes.
Or, get a Virtual one:
Top Virtual Number Providers for Switzerland
- Sonetel: Offers virtual Swiss numbers, including +41 prefixes, that allow you to receive calls and SMS on a smartphone app or email.
- 7sim.net: Known for allowing users to receive SMS verification codes directly in the browser without registering or installing an app, often using real SIM-based numbers.
- JustCall: Provides mobile-friendly +41 7x numbers suitable for 2FA/OTP with Swiss banks and apps (like Neon or Twint).
- Kavkom/KrispCall: Cloud-based VoIP services that allow you to get a Swiss number and manage SMS/calls through a dashboard.
- ASPSMS.ch: Specialized for “two-way” SMS, allowing you to receive text messages sent from a mobile phone and forward them to your email.
- Continent Telecom: Offers both virtual landlines (for voice) and mobile numbers (for SMS/OTP).
After reading your sad posts this week, they certainly put things in perspective.
Condolences to you and your husband.
You may not want one but honestly in this day and age things are so much easier if you have one.
Even my 96 year old auntie has a mobile phone.
The post office staff have to manually enter it into their system and they charge you for the privilege of having them do it for you.
It’s the same with mailing packages these days, if you print the label and do all the paperwork yourself at home it costs less than having them do it at the post office.
Because it occupies someone’s time to process and to handle the cash and all the associated costs of that. As opposed to a microsecond of computer processing time.
Microsecond of dropping the cash into the till is more expensive. Yeah. 
Seriously. It’s not all about you.
If everyone was so bloody-minded as you then the total time wouldn’t be seconds, would it?
Perhaps you need a pocket calculator before a phone?
They don’t just put the money in the till, they have to input all the info into the system which takes up their time.
Even though the order is sitting there ready to go? It’s all done bar the payment.
Tbh I use a calc more often than I do a phone - landline or mobile. 
Look at the bright side. No body could trace you til now.
Wow. Hat’s off for fighting through the pain of having no mobile phone. It seems everything assumes you have a mobile phone #, email or are happy to install yet another privacy invading app on your device to do anything. I guess one day, they will try to get rid of cash and force you to use Twint-like apps for everything.
I recently was thinking whether my life would be improved if I got rid of phones/computers entirely. Currently not possible while working, but having spoken to someone who got rid of their computer and used phone only when required, it got me thinking…
A phone is simply a computer these days. Only far worse in regards to security.
I think a halfway step would be to have a phone but always have it switched off, unless absolutely needed.
I’d hate to be snow-shoe hiking or skiing or hiking somewhere more remote with my kids and for one of them to have an accident and me not to be able to get emergency help as quickly as efficiently as possible because I was too stubborn to have a mobile phone.
I suppose the same goes for car trips.
Oh they have their uses, don’t get me wrong. But I rarely go out, rarely need to make/receive calls and when I do I have a landline right next to my desk.
Maybe if pay as you go was realy pay as you go, i.e. pay only when you actually make calls/use the phone then maybe I would. But paying a monthly sub for something I would use so rarely is just wasting money to me.
We got rid of the landline. My contract is so, so much cheaper than the landline cost.
Anyway, get PAYG and use your WiFi at home when you need verification codes etc.