Don’t pay ANYTHING by mail if you can possibly help it.
I can’t take credit for this - it’s from a Disqus user at Instapundit. He asked well before the election:
‘If envelopes were marked CASH and sent through the mail how many of them would make it to their destination undisturbed? Now apply that to envelopes clearly marked as containing election ballots.’
I pay my bills online, with a small handful of exceptions. But I always want my statements mailed to me so that I can keep physical records (and so I remember to pay them).
I can’t rely on email to tell me when something is due, because I miss things in email due to the overabundance of spam emails and junk emails. Paper bills are how I keep track.
Perhaps it’s time to privatize the postal service and maybe start hiring on ability rather than any other characteristic.