http://blog.catalogchoice.org/2008/07/31/going-paperless/ Reduce the number of catalogs you receive in the mail and go paperless. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:18:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://blog.catalogchoice.org/2008/07/31/going-paperless/#comment-9001 Myrna VanDoren Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:11:15 +0000 http://blog.catalogchoice.org/?p=207#comment-9001 This is a fabulous idea!! I just learned about your website in AARP magazine. I get sooooo many catalogs and finally have a way to put a stop to unwanted ones. Thanks a bunch!! This is a fabulous idea!! I just learned about your website in AARP magazine. I get sooooo many catalogs and finally have a way to put a stop to unwanted ones. Thanks a bunch!!

]]> http://blog.catalogchoice.org/2008/07/31/going-paperless/#comment-8732 Al Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:18:40 +0000 http://blog.catalogchoice.org/?p=207#comment-8732 Going paperless is a mixed bag. I'm out front of that movement, having systematically downloaded manual, eliminated catalogs, read news online, etc. However utility, bank and financial statements are not equivalently available online. Most companies "deliver" them by sending an email that I can go get them instead of emailing an encrypted pdf or something, and they don't keep records very long. This forces me to keep getting paper. The few companies that do provide them for longer have no simple way to download them in quantity. One rep told me her credit card company didn't want me to have a full set of statements as the more information I could get the more likely to call about something that didn't appear correct. Simpler for them to eliminate more than 6 months worth of statements so I wouldn't be able to call and question. One checking account only gives me 45 days worth of back data. Thus forced to accumulate and store paper. Really bad attitude I think. Going paperless is a mixed bag. I’m out front of that movement, having systematically downloaded manual, eliminated catalogs, read news online, etc. However utility, bank and financial statements are not equivalently available online. Most companies “deliver” them by sending an email that I can go get them instead of emailing an encrypted pdf or something, and they don’t keep records very long. This forces me to keep getting paper. The few companies that do provide them for longer have no simple way to download them in quantity. One rep told me her credit card company didn’t want me to have a full set of statements as the more information I could get the more likely to call about something that didn’t appear correct. Simpler for them to eliminate more than 6 months worth of statements so I wouldn’t be able to call and question. One checking account only gives me 45 days worth of back data. Thus forced to accumulate and store paper. Really bad attitude I think.

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