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klauskervin t1_j6sf6r2 wrote

Reply to comment by flaaaacid in PPL electric “accidentally” took a 3 month advance on automatic payments today by theREALPLM

People think I'm old school paying with checks but the fact is the law provides you significantly more rights and protections paying by check via USPS than any automated payment system.

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Ambitious-Intern-928 t1_j6uhbot wrote

Care to elaborate? To my understanding the old "postmarked" thing went away with the rise in electronic billing and companies must actually RECEIVE the check by the due date, or they can charge a late fee. The USPS has become notoriously unreliable over the last several years. I REFUSE to mail a check because it has EVERYTHING someone would need to set up fraudulent transfers, so when I had a bill that needed to be paid via USPS last year I sent a money order certified mail, it took 6 weeks to be recieved. It was NEVER scanned as delivered as the USPS was no help, they said "oh it probably got delivered and they forgot to scan it."

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klauskervin t1_j6v4w2t wrote

> To my understanding the old "postmarked" thing went away with the rise in electronic billing and companies must actually RECEIVE the check by the due date, or they can charge a late fee.

I've never had this issue they've always honored the post mark date.

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