Why the bank decided to use USB for this purpose, instead of paper, is very strange.
Still, actual write-once (or read/write until hardware fuse is triggered, read-only afterwards) SD cards should be possible to make.
I've definitely encountered read-only SD cards which I couldn't figure out a way to set it back to RW mode.
Do you have a source backing that up?
Aside from the local tax collector, which insists on snailmailing me a copy of all correspondence even though they also sent everything to me digitally, I can't even remember the last time I received any documents on paper, and I'm in the EU.
https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/durable-medium
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=788714a1-d7b6...
Why did you need a source for this?
"A PDF can therefore meet the definition of a durable medium."
I think that's shown by the post statistics: around 25 letters received per resident, per year.
I can't remember the last letter I received which only contained papers.