U.S.P.S. warning users against sending checks through the mail

[TC Talks]

QuickBooks automatically flags bills that change month to month.

[Matt]

Just found out that there was a Post Office outside mailbox that was broken into around Memorial Day. It is still out of service. Asked to comment, a citizen was told by a Postmaster that he couldn't comment. You might consider mailing inside 24 hour lobbies. Another security measure is to take them to the window, and ask them to hand stamp it and put it in their inside outgoing container.

What kind of rube sends paper checks?

[kager]

What kind of rube sends paper checks?

That would be me, occasionally. When I don't want to pay the "convenience fee" many gov't agencies and other companies want to charge, or it's the only form of payment accepted by the entity.

Otherwise, I'm electronic.

Frankly, I'm wondering what the big whoop is about sending checks in the mail. Guessing it's more a bigger/inner-city issue, if it really exists at all.

[Turkeytop]

I send cheques from Canada to the US a few times a year.

[Ben Zonia]

Over Holiday Weekends, there are apparently no pickups. The mail often backs up and even overflows. I have found letters on the ground in front of the box. Maybe they reached in and grabbed mail.

[teetoppz28]

What kind of rube sends paper checks?

That would be me, occasionally. When I don't want to pay the "convenience fee" many gov't agencies and other companies want to charge, or it's the only form of payment accepted by the entity.

Otherwise, I'm electronic.

Frankly, I'm wondering what the big whoop is about sending checks in the mail. Guessing it's more a bigger/inner-city issue, if it really exists at all.

How much are these convenience fees you are charged?? Generally, they are a dollar or two, but the stamp, envelope, and processing time would more than make it an even breakpoint.

Plus, even with the convenience fee, I have an actual transaction record, where I can prove the date and time the payment was sent, usually with a confirmation number. Dropping a check in the mail, WTH knows when/if it’ll arrive?

[Motown322]

Over Holiday Weekends, there are apparently no pickups. The mail often backs up and even overflows. I have found letters on the ground in front of the box. Maybe they reached in and grabbed mail.

Any day there's mail delivery, there are mail pickups. The mail never stops moving.

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I have a HELOC from a well-known bank that ONLY accepts payments with paper checks. Guess I'm that rube.

[teetoppz28]

I have a HELOC from a well-known bank that ONLY accepts payments with paper checks. Guess I'm that rube.

I'm calling bullshit. What "well-known" bank? No bank today would ONLY do paper-based transactions. That would be a terrible business model in this technologically-advanced world we live in.

[toad]

No bullshit....
Wells Fargo

[teetoppz28]

No bullshit....
Wells Fargo

Well, THAT was easy to debunk... https://www.wellsfargo.com/online-banking/transfers/

Easily make payments to your Wells Fargo credit and loan accounts. You can fund payments from your accounts at Wells Fargo or other U.S. banks.

You should probably set that up so you don't have to write paper checks and waste your time and stamps.

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No bullshit....
Wells Fargo

The same one with the horse and buggy on their logo… living up to the image.

[toad]

clarification, FWIW
I also have a credit card with them that allows online payments, which I do. The HELOC payment can only be made with a paper check, go figure...
I'm a rube only half of the time.

[teetoppz28]

clarification, FWIW
I also have a credit card with them that allows online payments, which I do. The HELOC payment can only be made with a paper check, go figure...
I'm a rube only half of the time.

Your original wording made it sound like Wells Fargo (as a whole) ONLY accepted paper checks as payment.

[Ben Zonia]

It used to be that there were large regional Post Offices that said "Continuous Collection" on the boxes, but the vast majority give a specific last pick up time, and say there is no pickup on Sundays and Holidays. If you know of a post office that actually does pick up on Sundays and Holidays, please tell us where they are.