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Receive paper but pay online through my bank or at the website of the utility (gas company only). I like a paper copy that I can write my payment info (date paid, amount, and transaction number) on and keep for a year or two.
I am just curious if most people who are retired get their bills online or where?
I like having paper documents. I'm rather old school that way.
I don't need to keep them all forever but I do like to keep many. (Year end statements, 1040's, etc)
Payments and such, to include viewing statements, are all almost entirely done online.
Mostly receive bills and pay online. There's been a rash of neighborhood cluster mailboxes getting broken into and/or vandalized especially the last couple of years, resulting in suspension of mail delivery until repairs can be made (which can take months, in some cases). Too inconvenient to drive to the post office and stand in line to pick up mail in the interim, plus the delays in availability for pickup.
If I feel I need a paper copy, I just print the PDF. No worries about lost or delayed mail, and no need to drive to the nearest blue drop box or to the post office to drop them off.
Mostly online. A few still come by mail, which is a nuisance. It is so much easier to look at what was paid , when etc in online banking than a paper folder Sewer & property tax come by mail. Pretty much everything else is automated with me getting an advance copy of the bill, via email, before it is paid.
Mostly paper, by choice, but the handwriting is on the internet. There is one town in Vermont where people are regularly getting mail a week late, which eats into the required time between billing and payment.
I used to do banking online, but after the third shift in the website/program/ap and issues with connection, I bailed and stopped trying to keep up with the idiocy. Each time something gets changed, the privacy invasion creeps forward.
As for credit cards, I have a Bank of America credit card that is sitting idle because of a bad chip, and when I called fraud prevention I was refused a replacement card because they couldn't identify me without my old phone number, which I had ditched. I couldn't believe that this was their response to my asking for a replacement to be sent to my billing address. I was told that it might work if I downloaded their phone ap, but since that is not the phone affiliated with the account, I refused.* I was told that I could, however, drive a couple hundred miles to Georgia and back, walk into a BOA bank there and identify myself and they would then send a new card to my billing address. Jerks. I'd use a stronger word on other forums.
* The phone aps are so popular with credit card companies, banks, stores and others because in most cases they can literally track where you have been with your cell phone. That data can then be used as they want or sold.
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