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customerserviceguy

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7. Almost fifteen years ago

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 19, 2020, 05:03 PM

Aug 2020

my then 72 year old mother shamed me into paying my bills online like she had been doing for years. "Don't you have that computer degree???" she'd hit me with, knowing that I have an associates in computer network administration.

She's 87 today, and still uses her iPad to keep up with things.

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Now is the time to switch to online bill pay (if you haven't already done so) [View all] flibbitygiblets Aug 2020 OP

There's a problem with that. Jirel Aug 2020 #1

True on that customerserviceguy Aug 2020 #5

What would help customerserviceguy Aug 2020 #2

+1. I put it off for years, but it's so much better than writing checks, recording Hoyt Aug 2020 #3

Almost fifteen years ago customerserviceguy Aug 2020 #7

LOL. They used to say mechanics always had cars needing maintenance. Hoyt Aug 2020 #11

You reminded me customerserviceguy Aug 2020 #17

A large number of local bills you pay electronically actually go by USPS. CincyDem Aug 2020 #4

Sometimes customerserviceguy Aug 2020 #8

Works only if you have good reliable, secure (non-public) internet service zeusdogmom Aug 2020 #6

That "strain on the USPS" is known as "revenue". n/t PoliticAverse Aug 2020 #9

Should be some sort of regulation on political mailings jcgoldie Aug 2020 #10

One can also pay by phone. Just have your account number... brush Aug 2020 #12

Please don't do that. You're helping the GOP privatize our USPS. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2020 #13

Won't the decline in mail volume and revenue be detrimental to the Post Office? MichMan Aug 2020 #14

Yes...and with recycled paper ...no need for this. Demsrule86 Aug 2020 #16

No we need to save the post office...we need jobs. Demsrule86 Aug 2020 #15