I don't have a problem with mail, but why should I pay 44 cents (or whatever the new stamp costs) when I can do the same for free, faster, and with a written confirmation of delivery?
In fact when you pay e-bills your payment goes direct from one computer to another. No human touch is involved to screw it up. And no human can see my checks - those are tools for identity theft and for theft of funds. Banks don't inspect checks under a microscope; if it looks like a check then it gets processed. Electronic payments skip on all that; it's very difficult to forge an electronic payment; people who can do that won't be hacking into my account. Besides, all electronic transfers are traceable.
With all due respect to Rush and his identity theft advertisers, I think the whole thing is a crock. (But really, I a bit surprised that Rush shills for folks like this.) I've been giving my credit card to Pakistani gas station attendants for more than 40 years now. Over the years I've had a few charges that I didn't recognize on my billing statements, and they all were always removed once I questioned them. My son in-law recently had a big number of phony big dollar charges to his account. Yeah, it took him a couple of hours but they were all removed. One of my summer jobs when I was a kid was in a big department store's credit department. Anyone willing to sign an affidavit of fraud could get any charge reversed on their account. I just don't see this as a big problem.
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