Kirb’s Musings

Kirby Witmer’s ponderings, ruminations, and meditations of… anything.

I just received this email from my credit card company.

You can protect your private account information and help out the environment by enrolling in eStatements, which are:

* Secure. No more worrying about your statement being intercepted or getting lost in the mail.
* Easy to Access. They are electronic statements that are available online. You will have access to up to 7 years of past statement history.
* Free! They are available anytime, anywhere. Print only the statements you want.
* Environmentally friendly. Think of the paper and the trees you will save by switching to paperless statements!

Ahhh.. sounds like a good plan. Save the environment! Its safe! Its easy to use! and best of all its FREE!! I mean, Why wouldn’t you sign up for e-statements? Nonsense. The biggest underlining reason why the credit card companies want you sign up for e-statements is so they can fill their pockets with a few extra bucks. Think about it, it saves them 32 cents more or less on every statement that they can email. Not to mention the amount of time it saves them by not having to print and send them. They even try to con you into thinking that if I don’t sign up for e-statements I won’t be able to view my statements online, which is not true.

Thanks, but I’ll pass.

P.S. Its not that I mind getting paperless statements. Actually, what really irritates me is the very idea that they think I am naive enough to think I’m doing a huge service to the environment, when in reality I’m just filling their already bulging wallets.

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