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11:43am on Tuesday, 19th April, 2022:
Outburst
Last month, Lloyds Bank told me that I would not longer be sent paper printouts of my bank statements. This is because for the past gawd-knows-how-many years I have resolutely refused to take them up on their kind offer to stop sending me them. I don't want to have to log into a system to find out how much money I've overspent by this month, because a) that's a security risk if my PC gets hacked, and b) I need to remember to do it.
Despite their claims that this is all to save paper and therefore the planet (because the planet is made of paper), I suspect that it's actually little to do with planets and lots to do with profits. The cost of postage is more likely to be alarming them than is capturing carbon in the form of dead trees. First-class stamps are now 95p (or nineteen shillings, when I was growing up); second-class stamps are now 68p (thirteen shillings and eightpence ha'penny).
Regardless of whether it's paper or postage that's driving this, though, it hasn't stopped Lloyds from sending me the usual advertising rubbish they used to send with the bank statements. No, I don't want to pay £21 to upgrade my account to triple platinum++ or whatever they're calling it, because the "benefits" it brings I either don't want or have bought elsewhere for less money.
I wonder how many years I can resist this kind of pressure to replace my old, worn-out account with a shiny new one. If my Halifax account is any indication, the answer is "decades".
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