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Marc VanHeyningen (mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: Thus said hennessy@cloud9.net (Mathew A. Hennessy):
: >In article <MPG.129f82838eed802d989760@naxs.ispnews.com>,
: >Robin  <robin_@softhome.net> wrote:
: >>Yep, I need checks to pay rent.  I keep meaning to ask if they take CCs 
: >>or can do direct withdrawal, but since my apartment complex is so small, 
: >>I doubt it.  I am down to three a month though: rent, cable (I suppose I 
: >>could use a CC if I paid in person, but it's easier to drop a check in 
: >>the drop box.  Plus, I have to use up my checks somehow!) and a storage 
: >>locker we rent.  
: >
: >	Citibank will print and send a check for me via automatic payment
: >if the payee isn't electonic.  Not too shabby..  Though you do have to
: >schedule the payment a few days earlier in advance, I like having the
: >payments all dump into my web browser or Quicken...

: I've had hitches with this mechanism.  If the payment is going to a
: company, then the check will arrive without the "return this portion
: with your payment" stub and therefore is likely to have its processing
: delayed or even lost (both have happened to me.)  When it does, you don't
: even know who to blame.

: You also don't have a check that actually hits your account, which means
: you don't have confirmation that the payee received it and don't have 
: the cancelled check to use a proof of payment later.

: It also means Citibank, rather than you, is earning interest on the
: float.  Probably not a big deal, though some landlords can be slow about
: depositing rent checks and the float there can be nice.

: >	I used it to pay my landlord (a human, not a corp) for over 2
: >years with not a hitch.  Ditto my phone, electric, car lease, insurance,
: >cable, and cooking gas bills.

: I've used it quite a bit too.  I'm enough of a troglodyte that I insist
: on paper records, though, which means I fill up the checkbook register
: long before running out of checks.  Oh well.

WHAT?  You STILL use paper? Haven't you heard of Quicken or MS Money?
Quicken saves me HOURs every month.


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