Receiving financial paperwork and bills online

[firecat]

Do you choose online delivery for bills and financial paperwork?

If so, what arrangements do you have set up for having those bills paid and that paperwork reviewed if you have a long illness and can't do it yourself? Or if you die?

This message brought to you by Wells Fargo, which informed me when I logged on today that it had changed my statement delivery option to "online only." I was able to change it back, but it pissed me off that they did it in an "opt out" manner like that.

I don't LIKE paperwork and would prefer to use online delivery for such things, but even though I would trust my partners to take good care of me if I got sick, that doesn't mean I want to give them full access to my email.

Comments

[zeborah]

All my utilities are by direct debit, ie the company tells my bank how much it wants this month and my bank says "Okey-dokey, here it are!" So the purpose of the bill is only to give me a heads up of how much will be taken away from me on [date] and a chance to complain if it's messed up, which it never is.

Personally I prefer email for this because it's less paper to deal with. Minor extra bonuses:
* if I suddenly need a recent bill for proof of address I don't have to hunt through the recycling bin, I can just search in my email;
* it comes slightly quicker than a paper bill would.

But also there's no-one else in my household who ought to have access to these things in the event that I was ill enough not to be able to check my email for weeks at a time.

And in any case companies definitely should always let you opt in to such things.

[firecat]

I have direct debit too for many bills but if I can, I get the statement on paper. I save them in a "pre-recycle-bin" folder that I replace every six months.