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You pay bills? Bills are going the way of the fax machine. They'll probably always be around but for most people dealing with a bill will elicit a reaction of
by smokinn 16y ago
You pay bills?
Bills are going the way of the fax machine. They'll probably always be around but for most people dealing with a bill will elicit a reaction of the "A fax? Why don't you just send it over on a dinosaur?" variety.
I don't know anyone in their 20s that hasn't automated almost every payment. (For some reason the electric company won't allow me to, they're the only ones that still send me bills.) Most of my stuff goes onto my credit card and my credit card pays itself out of my bank account. I just need to log in periodically and look at statements to make sure no one is screwing me over.
I don't want my personal inbox cluttered with crap like bills. The sooner we get rid of that stuff the better.
Caveat: That was all on a personal level. If you're running a business your inbox preferences change dramatically and that's ok. We don't to force everyone into a lowest-common-denominator middle ground.
- WesleyJohnson 16y agoThis is a convenience for those who don't live paycheck to paycheck. Many families, myself included, are, at times, forced to pick and choose what to pay on time and what is going to have wait a week or two. Living beyond my means? Perhaps, but I'm hardly the minority.
- marquis 16y agoThat's a great point you make. Why can't your electric/phone/water company allow you to make those choices online? After all, they want you to pay the bill, but they'll take 'at some point soon' rather than immediately, over never.
- joe_the_user 16y agoBills are just an example of "important communication from those outside your circle of friends". Only someone has a rather low level of responsibility in the world is not going to get anything of that sort - though different people will have get a variety of different sorts.