While almost everyone on here got on just to say something like, “who cares, I don’t use stamps”.
There are SOME OF US who does care!
I for one still mails off my bills every month. I write out each one so I can ensure to read each one. And I do NOT want my money to be ‘automatically deducted’ each month. Heck, one utility still can’t get my name correct. Like I am really going to let them take out money.
I want total control over my own money. And will NOT give into ‘convenience’ and saving a couple bucks for a reason to lose that control.
“I want total control over my own money.”
Online banking gives you total control. The bill pay applications only do what you tell them to do.
If you don’t want to pay the Sears bill, it will not be paid without your affirmative entry.
It’s an online checkbook. In form and function.
Still, there are those who fear that which is new and unknown. That’s the origin of ignorance.
There is nothing worse than a Luddite at the grocery store filling out a check, and the rigmarole that goes with it, while waiting in line behind them.
It’s laughable. And an inconvenience for everyone else.
Like you and grania, I write checks and buy stamps to mail my bill payments. I see so many errors on some of my bills that I’m not about to permit automatic deductions from my account.
Read some article last year of a elderly man who had auto-deduct. What family he had lived far away and they seldom communicated. .....Apparently, he died and it was a year or so before he was discovered. All utilities had been cut off because they had kept doing deductions until they drained his small bank account.