Thank You For Not Automatically Opting Me In
Up until recently a lot of the annual mutual fund reports I was getting were on an opt-out basis. Meaning, if I no longer wished to receive any of the clunky 50+ page annual reports, I’d need to contact the company directly and explicitly choose to opt-out. That’s why it was so refreshing today when I received a tiny mailer asking if I’d like to opt-in instead. No reply? Easy you’ll be automatically opting out.
The thing is, this is the way it should have always been. Aside from the obvious environmental benefit of wasting less paper, the company also saves money by not having to print a whole bunch of reports which would have mostly been skimmed (at best) and recycled anyway.
It’s a no brainer that when you given a choice of whether to receive an electronic version or physical version of mailings, you should, in most cases, choose the latter. Now if only we had some sort of solution to get rid of paper/physical coupons completely, now then that would be gravy.
Until then, sites like Save.ca will undoubtedly continue to entertain us with their Bathroom Tissue coupons.
