Our world is full of companies, organizations, and people doing very silly things.
Part one of this story involves the DMV. The DMV requires one to pay, by credit card, the $9 fee each time you get a license history from them for an individual. This is the only way you can pay them. You cannot invoice them, or do larger, batch transactions.
Part two of this story involves Silicon Valley Bank (or SVB for short). SVB is great, but unfortunately, they do not allow paperless billing for business accounts, so they will send us a statement at the end of every month with line items for every transaction you make.
Every now and then, the stupid stars in this world align. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the world’s most epic bank statement.
Wait, why did SVB spend $43.75 to send us this box?
No.
Way.
They spent $43.75 to send us a credit card statement thousands of pages long, 99% of which are identical duplicates. Any other transactions are completely buried and impossible to find.
And the best part?
We’re going to get one of these boxes.
Every.
Single.
Month.
And it’s going to get bigger and bigger every month, as our volume of transactions grows.
❤ thanks for the laughs, SVB
