The 300 Page Phone Bill

This young lady eloquently demonstrates the absurd waste of direct mail billing, having received a 300 page bill from AT&T.

I have a dangerously teetering stack of unopened phone bills, bank statements, utility bills, charity mailings and unrequested catalogues sent to me [and a number of previous tenants] sitting in my living room that testify to the wastage on this side of the pond [albeit on a much smaller scale, individually. Americans just like things to be bigger.]

I'm pretty sure I signed up for ebilling / estatements / look seriously just email me please don't send me any more of these pointless pieces of paper that I worry about throwing away in case I need them at some point although I never have before I only really use the post to get stuff I've ordered off the internet anyway so unless I've ordered something I may not even look in the post box for weeks at a time and while we're at it what is a cheque can't you please paypal me / but it doesn't seem to make much difference.

Lots of service providers do now offer paperless billing - I can't wait until it's the standard. And until they stop sending bills to the previous tenants.

[Viddler seems interesting  - hadn't seen it before - you can add timed tag comments on to the videos.]

Comments

[Sean Howard]

lol. nice!

[Julian Cole]

Not a fan of Viddler, messages are just really cluttered/stuffy. Clearly still in BETA with people just leaving messages for the sake of leaving a message. I feel there needs to be some restirction on the amount or who is commenting.

[Faris]

Hello! See your point - but interesting to see video get all social and 2.0 and that ;-p

[Julian Cole]

true true,

funny after i posted here

i saw a good use for it at

http://www.particls.com/blog/2007/07/announcing-new-particls-sidebar.html

the one person explaining