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[Nonametoday]

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@kaydee50 wrote:

I'm not sure why people are so reluctant to get their billing statements and paying bills on line.  They obviously have computers.  DH and I haven't gotten a paper bill or written a check literally in decades with never a problem.  I don't understand the hesitation.  So much simpler and easier especially setting up autopay for utilities.  

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Because it is probably the riskiest thing you ever do besides walking into a TB clinic and using the napkins of a patient.

[Nonametoday]

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@Texas Gray Wolf wrote:

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@Puppy Lips wrote:

I still get mailed paper credit card statement and I mail checks for payment.  It works for me so that is what I will stick with.  If I got a statement emailed to me, I would still print it out for my records.  Then I am using my paper and my ink.  If any one rolls their eyes at me, I can assure you that I don't care.

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We like getting mailed statements too.....We just don't want to rely on electronic statements.  I miss thumbing through catalogs.  I know that so much is now online.  My husband has kept many old reference books on repairs instead of looking it up on the computer.  Also, I still love cookbooks....I make notes beside a recipe or a big "X" if we don't like it.  

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@Texas Gray Wolf 

I pay on line but I really prefer a hard copy of my statements so I can take the time to scrutinize them at night when I am alone and it's quiet and I can focus.  I don't see as well numbers on the computer and I can get confused

[linky1953]

really?  you are calling it an 'addiction'.....unbelieveable

[Nonametoday]

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@Marp wrote:

I prefer receiving printed statements but I pay online.

If anything happens to me and all bills are electronic good luck to the entities getting paid because there is no way my heirs will ever get into my computer to even know what accounts exist.

My heirs will have to jump through a plethora of hoops to get access to any of my financial information.  This is by design for reasons I will not share.

BTW, my bank is a well known national bank and I do not get charged for checks although I rarely use them.  I do have to pay a fee if I want copies of the paid checks.

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@Marp 

This happened to us when we were in the hospital simultaneously due to a wreck and our children paid all the paper bills and could not pay any on line bills.  We got bad credit from a mercantiel store as a result and we called the credit bureau.  They straightened it out and we quit doing business with the mercantiel company.   They lost about $6000 in business from us.

[CalminHeart]

Some people don't like change. Change is the only constant in our world today. Nothing stays the same.

My dad lived to be just shy of 92, dying this past Christmas. He received bank statements, utility bills, etc, via email and figured it out easy enough and he wasn't technology-savvy. 

I can't imagine storing all those paper copies and the cost of printer and ink. I'd need more filing space as well as a high performance shredder when it came time.  

To each their own.

[San Antonio Gal]

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@Nonametoday wrote:

Try paying your painter, your gardener or your housekeeper with a debit card.

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The painter, gardener and housekeeper like to get paid with cash app.

[VMK]

I'm with you! I like receiving paper statements, but then I'm 70+. That is our preference and quite frankly it has always worked for me, and the post office. I do pay bills online. I pay all our bills, so if I die, my husband would have no clue. He doesn't use e-mail, so electronic bills would not be noticed.  Younger folks might have trouble grasping that "old" concept.  I have bought plenty from the Q since they first started. $1.99 won't kill me, but it's the principle of the matter. I have spent a lot of money over the years. Now their prices are so high, that I buy less. 

[Alcorn]

I agree with you about the 1.99 charge for getting a paper statement.I check it each month and have found that some returns was not credited to my account.I have all so been sent food orders that were bad and QVC did take it off my account to only be return back on my account after 2 months.To only have to call them back to remove it yet again.Synchrony Bank is with out the rudes people I have ever talked to.So I paid my Q card off and they can do what they want with it.And changed 1 auto delivery to another card to be paid off at the time.At least I get points on the card.and(only because I like the Product) I will never own a Synchrony Bank card again.I've been with QVC for about 24 years But I guess no more. Not that they care.And yes I do pay QVC on line and my othere bills by phone. I'm 73 and my fingers don't work very well.

[princesess]

not everybody has a computer, if they want to order they call QVC and order, and how are they gonna pay their bills on line?

[RespectLife]

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@Love to Run wrote:

My husband is an accountant and every record he needs is stored digitally for both our household and his clients. 

People who store boxes of papers remind me of the hoarders that refuse to part with something for fear they will finally be presented with the oppotunity to use that one precious item.😂 

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That's quite a stretch of an analogy @Love to Run 

We MUST save our tax documents...and doing so IN a box is nothing remotely even close to being a hoarder!!!

It is the gov't that strongly suggests you save it !!

Tax documents are not anything like what someone may save in excess.  Not even close!  Nothing 'precious' about tax documents.

I'm sure your DH may have staff that does all that scanning for him or is more tech savvy than some of us.