Sammy: I checked my electric, gas, water, cable , landscaping and trash collection bills. NONE of them charge any service fee or adder for paying bills electronically. In fact, several offer a discount for signing up for regular epayments tied directly to your bank (which I won’t do). So there is NO additional cost and if you are being charged, you are being ripped off. A very few smaller businesses may charge a service fee for credit card use so I keep an old fashioned checking account for those vendors which I rarely encounter. Some vendors no longer take cash despite certain “progressive” jurisdictions passing legislation requiring them to do so on behalf of the “unbanked” portion of the population. The more hip/millennial oriented service providers only offer digital (paper free) payment options so you cannot even initiate service w/o giving them a credit card.
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