I much prefer the online statements. Like mia, I check accounts regularly online, and know when payments are due. I sign up for email alerts as reminders, and I download the .pdf onto my local hard drive. Much more efficient than receiving hard copy statements and filing, or having to scan them myself to file electronically.

It's so much easier when traveling to review and pay statements online rather than be away when the postal mail comes, or rely on mail forwarding when away from my billing address for months at a time.

I find it very annoying that my UK-issued IDC still sends paper statements and I must mail a cheque via postal mail to pay that one (live in Denmark, write a cheque on a U.S. bank account, mail to the UK). I always have to remember to estimate and pre-pay when I am going to be away for 3-4 weeks and won't be able to receive and pay the statement in time.

Susan