The ongoing impact of global inflation, economic pressures and the current complex international geopolitical and trade situation have created new challenges for international settlement activities, including debt recovery. One of the characteristics of international documentary collections is to obtain payment mainly relies on the commercial credit of the payer, rather than the bank’s bank credit, so the risk is relatively high. We use the typical stationery misuse -- from the perspective of export companies -- to analyze the problems and risks of stationery itself, and put forward relevant measures to avoid and evade risks. We hope that practitioners living in this field can learn from it.