Thursday, May 22
USPS to Me: Pay Online
The U.S. Postal Service taught me a valuable lesson yesterday: "Pay your bills online."
You see, when I mailed my credit card payment on Monday I had only put a 41 cent stamp on the envelope. I had forgotten (honestly) that the post office had raised the rates to 42 cents. My post office was kind enough to return-to-sender the envelop with a quick blurb on how to fix the problem by adding the penny stamp, but I took it a different way. Why not pay the bill online? It was just the kick in the pants I needed.
After I went through the steps... I found that two of my credit cards are with the same bank and both can be paid online from my checking account. I configured payment alerts and lots of great things like the "go paperless" program.
I am now very motivated to pay all my bills online. I'd like to see if I can virtually eliminate all my snail-mail bill paying.
Thanks USPS!
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The problem is - most companies require you to sign up for electronic bills in order to pay them online. That means that if you want to keep a record of your bills (which you may not need. But if you do, you better have them) yourself, you have to store those electronic copies somewhere. And that, in turn, means - RAIDs, backups, not forgetting to download PDFs, etc. To me, the better way is to use the bill payer facility of my credit union. No stamps, but no electronic bills as well.
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