Jade26
24-11-2008, 9:53 PM
Yesterday I received my “new look” phone bill from Australia’s largest telephone company. Lots of light blue, dark blue and a dash of pink on the front page just to pretty things up. Now as far as I’m concerned, a bill is a bill is a bill and no matter how much it is tizzied up doesn’t make it any easier to pay. But that’s not my gripe, bills are an inescapable part of life for all of us.
What really threw me was their claim that this “new look” bill would help save up to thirty thousand trees a year! There was nothing anywhere to say that they were now using recycled paper, but my new look bill (and that of thousands of others no doubt) has now doubled in size from the usual four pages to eight. The reason for this is that after several years of including my dial up internet connections in with local calls, they have now begun itemising every separate connection. (Considering that I am using one of their lines their itemisation provides a sorry record of inefficiency and constant dropouts. Thank goodness my dial up subscription runs out this week and I am going on to broadband).
To get back to my gripe, how is it that a company can almost double their paper usage and claim that they are saving x amount of trees by doing so? Is it because they are providing me with more paper to shred and put in the recycle bin?
Trish |soapbox|
What really threw me was their claim that this “new look” bill would help save up to thirty thousand trees a year! There was nothing anywhere to say that they were now using recycled paper, but my new look bill (and that of thousands of others no doubt) has now doubled in size from the usual four pages to eight. The reason for this is that after several years of including my dial up internet connections in with local calls, they have now begun itemising every separate connection. (Considering that I am using one of their lines their itemisation provides a sorry record of inefficiency and constant dropouts. Thank goodness my dial up subscription runs out this week and I am going on to broadband).
To get back to my gripe, how is it that a company can almost double their paper usage and claim that they are saving x amount of trees by doing so? Is it because they are providing me with more paper to shred and put in the recycle bin?
Trish |soapbox|