Credit Card Statements Advice please

Miniminxie

Thank you gt94sss2 I'll try

GTR_King

Nearly all banks should offer paper statements of some kind 

Nasqueron

If, for whatever reason, you are absolutely opposed to having a banking app - which will give you a PDF statement immediately which you can read or print if you need the dead tree copy - then most, if not all, will have statements available on the bank online site and again, you can get PDFs to read on the screen. Both are far safer than a paper copy which can be used for ID fraud and gives you the same information, but slower.

subjecttocontract

Banks need to consider that there are people like me who:
* Don't use apps.
* Don't have a smart phone.
* Don't have a printer.
* Don't want to check stuff online.

Nasqueron

They do but there are a vanishingly small number of people who wish to have the security risk and environmental cost of a paper statement in the post AND who don't use a smartphone AND are unwilling to check things online. Only getting a monthly statement means a huge delay to notice and take action over fraud or mistakes hence why the vast majority are served fine with apps or online (or both). I suspect (and hope) it will become a paid service eventually as they are no longer required (not the same as desired) in the digital age. 

subjecttocontract

Nasqueron said:

They do but there are a vanishingly small number of people who wish to have the security risk and environmental cost of a paper statement in the post AND who don't use a smartphone AND are unwilling to check things online. Only getting a monthly statement means a huge delay to notice and take action over fraud or mistakes hence why the vast majority are served fine with apps or online (or both). I suspect (and hope) it will become a paid service eventually as they are no longer required (not the same as desired) in the digital age. 

But they are required be me and a rather large number of others.
My American Express account is all online and it's a total pain in the ar*e.
Fortunately Nat West still send paper statements.

fatbelly

Yes I doubt the number is vanishingly small.

IanManc

Nasqueron said:

They do but there are a vanishingly small number of people who wish to have the security risk and environmental cost of a paper statement in the post AND who don't use a smartphone AND are unwilling to check things online. Only getting a monthly statement means a huge delay to notice and take action over fraud or mistakes hence why the vast majority are served fine with apps or online (or both). I suspect (and hope) it will become a paid service eventually as they are no longer required (not the same as desired) in the digital age. 

Have you any evidence / citations to back up your assertions, or are you just making things up as you go along?

Your posting - just like the last one in which you called a paper statement "a dead tree copy" - comes across as sneering at people who simply make a different choice to you as to how they want to receive their statements.