Wednesday, February 14, 2007

“Go-Paperless”

Lessee.......
No statement so far this month from Visa; it usually comes by the middle-of-the-month.
Last month I accessed the Chase-Visa site so I could monitor what charges had been posted to our Visa-account. The idea was to have the account already balanced when the statement appeared.
I do this with the Canandaigua National Bank checking account — access it online and thereby update my Quicken CNB account. When the CNB statement appears, the Quicken account is already balanced.
The Chase-Visa site had a “Go-Paperless” tab. So I clicked it as an experiment. I now have this feeling that as a result, we won’t get a hard-copy statement — which is okay except that reconciling an online statement is hard. The online statement is a PDF of the hard-copy; which is what it’s probably printed from......
Well, okay; but the PDF is tiny, which means blowing up with the magnifying-glass.
Okay; doable; but we’re jumping through all kinds of hoops just to “go paperless.”
So what we ended up doing — to offset all the malarkey — was print the PDF; ready guys....... ON PAPER.

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