Widebrim
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I agree with keeping open on Saturdays. Many of us find it difficult to get to the post office during the week...
In fact, I believe that sort of talk is a little near sighted.
this addresses only part of this. Sometimes snail mail can take up to 10 days to arrive.
Diamondback said:The other benefit to them is there's no hardcopy records of when payment was mailed or tracking, so it's easier for them to claim "never received" while still getting your money or "received late, you owe a late fee" even if payment sent two weeks before due-date--one of the mortgage companies for my mother's house used to be real big on such tricks, but my taking responsibility for getting the checks mailed and sending 'em out Priority or Express, always with Tracking and Signature Confirmation put a stop to that noise in her case.
Foofoogal said:Many LadyDay.
Many companies charge for a service if you use a bill paying service thru them now also.
Many also strongly suggest you pay online and opt out of snail mail in guise of saving trees.
Just like now many companies charge to talk to a real live human being about your bill.
I am sorry but definitely think in the near future it will be mandatory for many companies or pay a fee.
http://www.bbb.org/us/post/companies...-by-phone-1304
Widebrim said:I agree with keeping open on Saturdays. Many of us find it difficult to get to the post office during the week...
Strongly suggest and definitely think dont equate to companies that actually charge extra for mailing in a payment via USPS.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: the USPS is the ONLY service that has delivered all of the packages sent to me from eBay purchases without any problems at all. A number of irreplacable items shipped by UPS or DHL have been destroyed, one way or another. UPS likes to ignore the very large box with PLACE PACKAGES IN HERE in large letters on its side and leave boxes in the rain and/or where my dogs can get to them. FedEx once delivered a package to the same street address, but on a US highway, not the state route I live on. They'd messed up the shipping label and made a guess, then refused to come out to where they'd left it to pick it up and deliver it properly when the confused people at that address called them.