Anyone else still pay some of their bills by mail?

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
04/08/2017 at 12:52 • Filed to: Money money money

Or am I just totally alone here.

DISCUSSION (30)

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 12:58

Kinja'd!!!

Spaceball-Two > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:00

Yes. I have an inherent distrust of just letting a company TAKE money out of my account.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:01

I still write a check for my utilities bill, but the drop box is literally 5 blocks away so I don’t have to mail it.

MM54 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:02

I do

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:04

I’ve never even owned physical checks. #Millennial

E90M3 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:07

The only bill I’ve paid by mail was the car payment on my M3. I use my credit card and I get cash back, why wouldn’t I use it?

E92M3 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:08

No, stamps are expensive! Seriously though, I’ve had too many get lost. I prefer to pay online.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:16

Still use checks for utilities since it’s the only payment method they don’t charge a fee on. I mail out my payment for hemmings magazine too. The rest is online.

Wacko > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:18

I don’t even have cheques.

I pay everything online. Actually I pay almost everything with my credit cards then I pay them off monthly.

Tripper > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:18

Just the sewage bill, they don’t make it easy to pay online so I write a check.

AestheticsInMotion > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:19

I’ve used a check once... To be fair, any bills that go to companies with storefronts I’ll pay in person so I can verify everything is working correctly. T-mobile, gym, etc.

404 - User No Longer Available > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:20

I pay online because I can keep my money in my savings account as long as possible. Pretty much I can pay within 24 hours of the due date and still not be past due.

Interest rates are crap but still better than nothing.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:26

My bank does the icky manual labor of sending any physical checks I need to send people, except at critical moments when I must stoop to doing it myself. At my current rate of check consumption, I should get through the checkbook my bank sent me in 2005 around the time I’m purchasing my tombstone. That might be wishful thinking, though. I’ve only written 4 in that time - 3 for rent deposits and 1 for a car. My wife writes about 1.5 a month - 1 to the house keeper, then random ones to various people (and that average includes all the wedding expenses that were paid by check), but bills are still paid through automatic bill pay. In spite of being much younger than me, she operates like someone much older.

Old Red Wagon > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:32

I personally don’t but my mom still does. I told her to switch to online to save on stamps but she’s old school and just likes doing it the way she’s been doing it for years.

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:41

I’m old, but I’ve gradually moved most of my things to automatic draft. I still feel silly when the office receptionist sees me putting actual mail in the outgoing pile, but I’m not letting credit card payments be automatic things, I want to track that carefully in case of fraud.

And VW requires my social security number to set up auto payments. They can forget it, there is absolutely no need for that to do a payment draft. Really frustrating, so I write a check every month, which has also become frustrating.

Funktheduck > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 13:59

Nope. I still write checks though

duurtlang > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 14:06

The last time I paid by mail was probably in 2002 or so. Never wrote a check in my life. Even my grandfather (1925) started paying online about a decade ago.

shop-teacher > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 14:11

I held on longer than most, but got sick of buying stamps a few years ago. I don’t do automatic draft, but I pay it all online through my bank’s website.

McMike > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 14:16

I still do.

XJDano > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 14:19

We pay one or two by mail. Those are usually the ones that get forgotten and then they are double the next month.

Steve in Manhattan > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 15:09

One check a year to the state of MD for a professional license, but they keep promising online payment.

You are a dinosaur.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 15:14

I haven’t paid a bill by mail in years.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > E90M3
04/08/2017 at 15:24

I’LL ASK THE QUESTIONS HERE

Orange Exige > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 15:45

Make room for another millenial answer here: nope!*

Honestly, it’s somewhat baffling to me that anybody would still pay bills by mail - I can’t even imagine how not too long ago, everybody was mailing out checks every month hoping they all get to their destination safely and timely.

*Two exceptions actually - the only bills I’ve mailed are the ones which cost extra to pay online (wtf right?): a MA speeding ticket** and my town’s vehicle tax (which you could bring to Town Hall but was very frowned upon)

**actually, I’m not even sure it cost extra to pay this online - they just suck and don’t post your citation in their system for several weeks, despite the fact that payment is due (postmarked) in 20 days. So unless you get real lucky, you have to pay by mail.

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 16:23

I just last year finished off a book of forever stamps that I bought something like 10 years ago. That should tell you how much snail mail I send in total.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 20:34

I’m about 50/50. I pay my mortgage and power bill by mail as well as my REI Master card. Everything else is online, car, internet, and Visa through the bank.

Die-Trying > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/08/2017 at 22:45

i still make my car insurance payments IN PERSON, and i got rid of my bank card, and only do business across the counter from live people at those two places. both those places had managed to make a mess in the past, and trying to work with them over the phone was just infuriating. after i started dealing with them in person things just went right........

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Spaceball-Two
04/08/2017 at 23:49

made that mistake when my 2 year comcast “introductory subscription” ran out. Had a bunch of movie channels, phone, internet and went from $112 to $220.

Spaceball-Two > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
04/09/2017 at 00:13

I had Quest mobile keep pulling out of my account way after I moved to a different service. Never again.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/09/2017 at 04:28

that’s what internet banking is for.