Garland Utilities...as usual passing the buck

[Rex]

Today, the Garland newspaper arrived in my mail box. Within it is an article about how the fee attached to paying your utilities bill via credit card is going up to $3.75 for payments under 600$.

$3.75 people. That's 45$ by the end of the year. 45$ is a bunch of school lunches, or a weeks worth of groceries.

What do you think of this?

[Giraffegroupie]

Dang! Are you serious? I just brought the paper in but have yet to look through it. Was thinking of paying online but think I will stick with snailmail.

[Miss Daisy]

Rex wrote:

Today, the Garland newspaper arrived in my mail box. Within it is an article about how the fee attached to paying your utilities bill via credit card is going up to $3.75 for payments under 600$.
$3.75 people. That's 45$ by the end of the year. 45$ is a bunch of school lunches, or a weeks worth of groceries.
What do you think of this?

I think it's outrageous that they should charge any fee at all, if the bill is paid on time.
What about paying at Walmart or Fiesta, is it still the 1.00 fee for that or has that increased ?

[NTS]

How is it that sending out snail mail is cheaper for the utility than a CC fee.

[Miss Daisy]

NTS wrote:

How is it that sending out snail mail is cheaper for the utility than a CC fee.

Okay, you count gas, then it depends on how efficient you are at keeping stamps and where the closest mail drop happens to be
Oh there's the cost of your checks and bank fees ....
Everyone is out to get fees... can't late fees be collected anymore ?