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

[meloukhia]

This is not really advicey, but I did find it interesting: when I was configuring my Verizon account, it offered me an option for a secondary bill-paying account--totally different U/N, pass, and PIN, and I could control the level of access (for example, I could allow someone to access the account *just* to pay my bill but not to make any account-level changes like canceling, adding lines, etc). I saw this and was like 'this is brilliant, why doesn't every company do this?'

[firecat]

That is indeed brilliant, and every company SHOULD do it.