On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:41:51 -0700 (PDT), terry
wrote:

On Aug 2, 8:42*pm, AZ Nomad wrote:
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:10:04 -0400, George wrote:
I have had that happen in two cases. One was a little bizarre because it
was a from a business that had purchased another business and apparently
they were combing through old records looking for money and decided I
hadn't paid invoices that were almost three years old.

And the bank lost their records of the transaction?

Paperless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I went automatic payment because was going to be away for three to
four months, last winter, although someone was picking up my mail for
me.
Returned home to find the cell phone provider from whom I do not
receive a monthly bill as a condition of the original cheap prepaid
deal had changed the contract on me; only sending out a regular mail
'information' letter that of course I had not seen!
Now back it's one few items for which not receiving a monthly 'paper'
invoice!
Might accept an automatically e-mailed invoice; provided that had an
arrangement whereby I would 'acknowledge receipt'. And then if not
acknowledged they would then 'postal mail' it!

Emailing it is the best solution. I don't know why snail mail has
worked for years and an email wouldn't. For some unknown reason the
utility companies want you to log onto a web site to get an ebill. It
is unnecessarily complicated. I have been using direct draft for at
least 3 years and usually throw my paper utility statements in the
shredder without opening them.

Bank statements may need special treatment, but I was talking about a
utility bill, not a CIA document. The bank could send you a yearly
summary in a special passworded file or something for you to keep for
you tax records.