If anyone has ever had a computer crash and lost irreplaceable (at least without half a life time expenditure for recreating) date, pictures, etc, they will understand that there is no such thing as paperless for those of us at home or office. Having had three sets of backups fail me on electronic media, I now resort to paper backups on most things ...especially online payments. If the bank no longer sends your checks back, how will you know what you are paying, have paid, or doing?
This brings up that paperless means that the sender makes it paperless. If you want a copy, you are free to print it out on your own paper and printing cost. This saves money...to the company's profits and out of your pocket. Additionally, like all collateral damage, the post office doesn't get their cut for a mailing, not that there are not a bunch of 'Willie Huttons of the Internet' polishing their teeth to get a bite of profit out of you for themselves. Have you noticed that service charges, though there may be little or no cost to them, go up. An EFT transfer of your money from one bank to another (just a few taps on a keyboard taking seconds) is in double digits and going up yearly though the action remains as simple.
Some companies are fairly reliable in their billing but there are others (like Verizon) who throw all kinds of little extras on your bill if you don't take precious time to go over each item of each bill with a fine tooth comb. This is why I have not gone completely paperless and allowed companies that get regular payments, (like utilities and credit cards), to just help themselves to my bank account 'to save me time and trouble'. It takes me back to the childhood poem, ' "Come into my parlor," said the spider to the fly'. .In this world of greed, hypocrisy in religion, corruption in politics, with all the deceit, violence and thievery that goes on...it is hard to trust anyone or anything any longer. There is not a paranoid bone in my body but I was taught that paranoid defenses are only wise when one has learned the need to protection from experience.
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I don't have trouble keeping track of my files...as long as my files exist Thanks for the post and tip, however.
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