Editor:
Am I the only one?
My cable company wants to charge for a paper bill.
My telephone company wants to charge for a paper bill. My gas company wants to charge for a paper bill. My electrical company wants to charge for a paper bill. My bank wants to charge for a paper bill. My credit-card company wants to charge for a paper bill.
I feel like Don Quixote must have when he was tilting at windmills. My ‘windmill’ is the assumption that everyone has a computer and is knowledgeable in online security.
Now to the crux of the matter.
Not everyone wants/needs/has a computer. Internet is not free in the area I live in. I do not have a free computer to read my statements whenever I need to. I don’t have a computer to print out a statement I require a hard copy of.
All of the paper bills generally contain a couple of pages of glossy ads for other services/products.
If the companies really wanted to save trees – as they tell us is the reason to go electronic – they could print their bills on recycled paper and not include any enclosures.
In the meantime, quit bugging me to opt out and go paperless.
Mike Baynes, Surrey