For the past few years I have been asking my bank why I couldn’t receive bank statements electronically via email, instead of receiving paper statements through the post. The advantage of doing things the electronic way, were obvious to me, but apparently not to my bank.
Then today, to my great surprise, I logged into my online bank account, and discovered that I was able to register to receive all of my bank statements via email. But there’s more, I could also download statements – from as far back as 7 years ago – as PDFs to my Desktop.
This is hugely helpful to me as I am a frequent traveler, and have been, up to this point, scanning all of my paper bank statements to PDF, so that I could take them with me on my laptop. As you can imagine, it’s a time consuming process.
The good news doesn’t stop there though:
- The bank statements that I receive through the mail are classified as legal documents as they are exact replicas of paper statements.
- It costs me nothing – I can access my current and historical statements 24 hours a day 7 days a week, for free.
- It takes under 2 minutes to register.
If your bank doesn’t already let you to receive bank statements via email, you should be asking them why not, because it’ll make your life a whole lot easier.
