Were people still using typewriters in 2002?

Alot of businesses were still using carbon paper forms with typewriters at this time.

Still use mine. I’m ready when the grid fails

My parents bought us a nice one when my older siblings got to college. It was fancy with the digital screen word processor. I had in in high school.

That would be in 1989. That's doesn't help the OP at all but brought back a pleasant memory.

I think the police still using typewriters (which a lot of departments probably still did at the time for a lot of things) was used to underscore how underfunded they were. That was a running theme through all the seasons.

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was on a flight from Portland, or to Austin, tx in 2013 and someone put a full typewriter in the overhead bin.

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If anyone in the world had a typewriter on a flight, it would be a flight from Portland to Austin.

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Fedex shipping labels

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C'mon, man. Didn't dot matrix printers stop being a thing more than 15 years ago? shite, I upgraded to a 24 pin DM printer over 20 years ago, and everyone went inkjet quickly. Request different Fedex labels, or don't, because you can just use pre-sized labels from Avery and you don't need an impact printer for carbon copies.

For forms, not much else.

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We still have one at work…it is still the easiest way to fill out paper forms.

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I've always been partial to just writing legibly.

Ruston High was still teaching typing in 1993. That’s all I got.

The most useful class I took in middle school besides the maths, would've been a keyboarding class. Teacher was a very old black cranky woman that put an orange plastic cover over the keys so you couldn't see the characters. Really helped me over course of life. I watch my dad have to look at keys when typing. If you were talking during class, she'd make you use a typewriter. This was 2005 or so.