The Bite:
Online bill-paying allows you to pay the piper, the cable company, or the baby-sitter next door - all with just a click of your mouse.
Isn't it time to pay the piper online?
03.13.2006
Submitted by idealbite on Mon, 03/13/2006 - 6:00pm.
The Benefits:
- Prevent paper waste. Phone companies alone use some 23,280 tons of paper per year just to bill U.S. residential customers for single lines of service.
- Paying bills online can save the average consumer $6 in stamps and 4 hours of time each month.
- Schedule automatic bill payments and you’ll never miss a payment or pay a late fee again!
Personally Speaking:
We’ve both joined the 35 million U.S. consumers who pay bills online, and we are now footloose and fancy free. (Well, kinda. It does help reduce the massive to-do list at least).
Wanna Try:
- Forbes Best of Internet Banking - rating of top online banking websites.
- Citibank - free online bill paying and access to accounts at other financial institutions through its account-aggregation service.
- Quicken Bill Pay - lets you pay anyone, anywhere in the U.S., from up to 10 different accounts ($9.95/month).
- Countless local and regional institutions are also getting in the game. Check with your bank today. And if they don’t have one, some credit cards are now offering the service – nice because you get convenience and miles.
Cocktail Fact
Paper takes up 40% of the space in U.S. landfills.
Bang For The Bite
Convenient, often free, and if all Americans viewed and paid all their bills online, we’d save 18.5 million trees per year.
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