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Inphinity: People still get printed bills sent out?
Side note, note sure what a herald article about AT Hop cards has to do with the topic...
"Topping up will be a problem too for those without a computer or credit card. Those with both can do it online. That's if the website settles down. But for the poor and the elderly - the ones most likely to lack either a credit card or computer - there are just those 16 shops or stations for a cash transaction.
For Westies there's just one - the New Lynn Transport station, while the whole of South Auckland, just two are listed - the Papakura Train station or Manukau Institute of Technology, Otara.
Still, in the week that Telecom announces it is no longer posting out paper bills unless you pay a penalty charge, why does this sort of "service" surprise me.
Inphinity: People still get printed bills sent out?
Side note, note sure what a herald article about AT Hop cards has to do with the topic...
Regards,
Old3eyes
Involuntary autocorrect in operation on mobile device. Apologies in advance.
mattwnz: There are a number of problems with not receiving paper bills. Firstly you usually need to print them out anyway for tax or business reasons, and they are usually multiple pages
So not only do you need to print them out on your own paper and ink, unless you have a duplex printer, you are using wasting more paper than a bill in the mail would use, which would normally be double sided. So it is shifting the cost onto the consumer, as I am sure they are not reducing their fees they charge you.
Also it further erodes NZ Posts customer base, as I am sure that bills are a large part of the items that they deliver. So potentially with all businesses switching to email bills, it means more lost jobs and less delivery days etc. There are also the companies that manage the sending out of these bills, which is often subcontracted out, so more potential job losses there.
They also get lost amongst all the spam, and they sometimes you may miss them. So when you need them for tax purposes at the end of the year, you have to go back all through your emails, or long into their website, which is a pita.
It is also another job to do, in opening up the email and downloading the bill, and printing it out etc. Getting it in the mail is less work.
old3eyes: The only paper bills I get now are the ASB back statements and Visa bill. I guess the day will come when they go electronic as well. I always have in the back of my mind "what if the email never gets thru"
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NonprayingMantis:mattwnz: There are a number of problems with not receiving paper bills. Firstly you usually need to print them out anyway for tax or business reasons, and they are usually multiple pages
So not only do you need to print them out on your own paper and ink, unless you have a duplex printer, you are using wasting more paper than a bill in the mail would use, which would normally be double sided. So it is shifting the cost onto the consumer, as I am sure they are not reducing their fees they charge you.
Also it further erodes NZ Posts customer base, as I am sure that bills are a large part of the items that they deliver. So potentially with all businesses switching to email bills, it means more lost jobs and less delivery days etc. There are also the companies that manage the sending out of these bills, which is often subcontracted out, so more potential job losses there.
They also get lost amongst all the spam, and they sometimes you may miss them. So when you need them for tax purposes at the end of the year, you have to go back all through your emails, or long into their website, which is a pita.
It is also another job to do, in opening up the email and downloading the bill, and printing it out etc. Getting it in the mail is less work.
no you don't. you have to keep records, but they don't need to be paper records. I have never printed out any e-bills I have received.
the rest of your argument basically boils down to people arguing that the motorcar will put buggy whip manufacturers out of business.
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