I go into my email every six months or so... (or only when i *know* something important is there, like password resets)

But i check my texts every single day. 

Is there a way that I could get my requests by SMS instead of email without changing my contact email to the phonenumber@txt.att.net e-mail?

Perhapse PBS could add an alternate email or something similar that we could toggle as the primary method?

I suppose i could change the email address to the one that i check a little more often, but i prefer to stay out of both e-mail apps.

You don't check your e-mail often, but wish you were receiving your PBS notifications?  Sounds like a personal problem    PBS utilizes an extensive PM and e-mail notification system, so you will need to check either your personal e-mail situation or check in more frequently here at PBS. 

Dunno about the SMS part of your question, but hopefully someone will come by soon with an answer for you. 

I check my email on my smart phone.  I can delete quickly from there and if I see an email from PBS, I log on and find out what's happening.

Can't answer your question but hope this helps.

Not that I am aware of.   Why not have email forwarded from one account to another so you are only checking one of them.

Actually, in this increasingly 160-character world, that sounds like a perfectly acceptable enhancement request to me, Christopher. I would suggest using the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the page to do just that.

That said, until the good folks at PBS implement an SMS notification option, I have a suggestion... Most email systems allow some sort of custom filtering. Could you write a filter in your email account that would forward only "transaction requests" to the phonenumber@txt.att.net e-mail? Personally, I do something similar in Thunderbird: I assign a purple tag to any incoming email from librarian@paperbackswap.com with either "Wish Granted" or "Book Requested" in the subject. It would be simple enough for me to add a forwarding action to that filter, should I wish to get a text as well.