E-Statements Instead of Hardcopies… Be More Friendly to the Environment

I have just got a notification HSBC that they will be no more sending me the monthly statement. It reminds me that CITIBANK as well, already stop from sending me the monthly statement since months back. They are now only give me the e-statement forwarded to my email every month. Don’t feel any inconvenient since then.

To me this is a good move. It helps to reduce a lot of paper waste, and more importantly, eliminate tremendous amount of energy for sending the mails. Of course, you may want to say that the savings is only benefit to the business people, because they have the cost cut. That’s obviously true, but we are not in any lost also. Maybe if the business could give some incentive for clients receiving e-statement instead of hardcopies, it will help to encourage people on accepting this concept. The best arrangement will be win-win for everybody.

So the trend do goes on. I just figure out that the telco company also provide options for users to stop from receiving hardcopy statements. Just one of the example, I have just registered an account with TMonline. With the account, you do have the choice to have no paper bill sent to your mailbox. Instead, you can view your statement online or sent to you via email.

According to another friend that is using mobile services from Maxis, they charge extra for any hardcopy statement sent to you. In another words, you are saving some bucks for saving paper bills.

No matter what, the best reason is by eliminating paper statements, you are saving our environment. Unless you are not online and do not have an email (which is unlikely since you are reading my article now), then what stops you from doing it? Maybe your feedback do make sense and worth thinking. Please do comment if any.