Recently I've noticed many companies asking me to go paperless, stop my paper bill, and signup for automatic payments!
While this is quite convenient, if it works properly! If you go paperless you get email notifications with a URL to go to a secure site to view your bill.
If you've got an over-agressive spam filter those notifications go to the trash. Ah! This is where the automatic payments come in! You can link your account to a bank account or credit card to have your bill automatically paid! Again this is a nice feature, but your bill paying is automatic so if you are one of those "out of sight, out of mind" people, you might just forget that you're hemorrhaging money. Let's not get into disputes over billing errors and automatic payments.

One thing that really annoys me, is that as a consumer I don't get a price break when I stop my paper bill and/or go automatic.
You are cutting back on the costs of paper, printing, mailing and processing when you do this. Why should I not get 1%, 2%, 5% off (or whatever is fair) my bill when I do this?
What is the incentive? I like my paper bill because it is a reminder to pay up, and it gives me an opportunity to review my expenditures.
If things are online, or in a non-tangible form, then I have less of a reminder that something needs to be taken care of. So if there is no incentive to switch, why do it?