Yah! Just a few more minutes and I would be able to go outside and attach the I-Pass in our car. This afternoon I tried again and it the page finally loaded. This morning I logged back on to the website and then it said that they were having technical difficulties, so I had to wait again. But wait, if you have to activate it why was it wrapped in foil? Oh, well. Unfortunately the website was down for maintenance. There was a small flyer that said you have to activate the I-Pass before use, so last night I went to the I-Pass website to activate it. I figured the foil was to prevent my account from being charged in case the mailman drives the package through a toll booth, but still it was a little unprofessional-looking. The I-Pass was wrapped in aluminum foil inside the above brown envelope. You pay a $10 deposit for the device and have to charge it with $40 to start off. Pretty good deal, and the transponder is basically free. If normally you have to pay $0.80 when you pass a toll then with the I-Pass it’ll only take $0.40 off your pre-paid account. It allows you to drive through toll booths on toll roads without stopping, and you only pay half of the normall toll. The I-Pass is a little electronic box that we’ll attach to the windshield of our car. Yesterday I received in the mail our I-Pass transponder for the Illinois Tollway. Posted on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 2:38 pm CET

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