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¡°You are what you eat,¡± the saying goes, but that was before credit card statements offered a much more comprehensive insight into a person¡¯s innermost workings.
Perhaps that is why many customers choose what they believe is the more secure option of e-mail billing, which eliminates the danger of other people opening a statement left lying around. BC Card has seen the number of e-mail statement users increase fourfold to 2.81 million over the last four years, accounting now for 30 percent of its customers. Other card companies, too, report electronic statements are increasingly popular.
Some customers have one overriding reason for asking their statements to be e-mailed: keeping them secret from their wife. A salaried man in his 30s said before the days of electronic statements he had to hurry home after work to intercept his statement before his wife could open it. And indeed, men in their 30s and 40s constitute the largest proportion of e-mail statement users.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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