Why legal?
 

I was organizing the last several years' worth of FFP statements last night, and I noticed that frequent flier programs are the only entities which send me statements which are printed on legal-sized sheets of paper. Not every program does, but most do. I don't know about the rest of you, but the filing cabinet I have at home is designed for letter-sized sheets of paper, not legal. So I end up either folding the statements, so that they're now thicker, or I tear off the part which exceeds letter-size dimensions.

Why only FFP's? My credit card companies don't; my brokerage doesn't; my 3 telephone service providers don't; my bank doesn't; etc.

(No, it's not really a big deal.... Just a minor annoyance.)

So, does everybody else have legal-sized file folders and cabinets?

I toss them after I verify all my flights have hit. I also don't fly UA so maybe that's why I haven't noticed.

I agree entirely. Australia (like Europe) has all paper sizes standardised as A4, which is very close to Quarto.

Apart from Hilton and United they are the only thing I receive in this loooonnnnngggg size, from 100s of accounts - flying and general business related, and I really get flustered as the folders these go into are not long enough.

Who knows why they do it? CO always sent smaller ones, no idea why UA and Hilton have stuck with the bigger size, but I for one wish they did not. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

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~ Glen ~

"my 3 telephone service providers don't"

The rest of us aren't so lucky:
Sprint - letter size http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
MCI WorldCom - 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif
Verizon - 6 1/2 x 4 (gazillion pages), boo hiss scream! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mad.gif

Maybe they're sent in legal size because they have a tear-off slip for sending in flight information for credit, and the airline assumes that its database has missed at least one flight for each member. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif When you tear off the slip and send it in, what remains is letter size.