in a NEW SIZE!

ConEd is so proud of their new bill size!  For those readers who are not ConEd customers, our fine local utility sent a post card to all their customers a few months ago proudly announcing the NEW SIZE of our bills.  I don't know what I was expecting, the information presented in a different manner, a new font size, but something that would take advantage of the NEW SIZE.  What we customers got was the same old bill, printed at the same width, but with a one-inch margin on both sides.  Yes, each new bill now comes with 22 square inches of extra paper.  Now, for the second month in a row the envelope containing our bill, actually I pay directly so this is just a statement, proudly proclaims the fabulous NEW SIZE.

ConEd has approximately 3.4 million customers.  That works out to an extra 74.8 million square inches, or nearly 520,000 square feet of blank paper produced each month for no reason whatsoever.  That's enough paper to make approximately 8000 100-page notebooks or 6000 300-page paperback novels each month.  Nice way to use our natural resources ConEd.

Comments

[J$]

plus the envelopes are larger too. i suspect they got some sort of deal on larger size paper and envelopes.

the postcard announcing the new size bill was pretty ridiculous too. based on your #'s, if they sent out the announcement postcard to 3.4 million customers and it cost maybe 10 cents each including postage, it ran them $340,000.

[Chipo]

Don't worry, eventually the customer will pay, through the nose preferably, and mrBush will work out a way how to make ethanol from those blank spaces and we will all be happy again.

[tien]

i'm guessing the paper is cheaper and everything is standardized to that size paper.

you know, you can just get a bill online and then they don't send you any paper at all. that's what i have. they even send you an email reminder that your bill is ready.

[Merisi]

Incredible, so hilarious and sad at the same time. I hope the soon run out of the large paper size.
Trying to stay optimistic here,
M.