Postage Increase

I pay all of my bills online. But, I still send greeting cards to people and I have some 41 cent stamps so, I will need to go get some 1 cent stamps. And, I didn't start paying bills online. I think I have been paying bills online for around 9 or more years now. I just like that there is no way for my payment to get lost in the mail. And, it won't be late. And, if anything is late or lost, it isn't my fault. The bank has to take responsibility for it and, all I have to do is call my bank and have them talk to the company. Any trouble I would have gotten into is wiped clean. Also, I have had things stolen from my mail at home so, this way, I know that my check won't get stolen from my mailbox. So, I would say that doing it online is about equally as dangerous as sending payments via the mail. For one thing, less info actually goes out in the mail system. No one can forge my signature as they won't have a copy of it. Either way, I think you are equally at risk for danger from either method. Online is just more convenient.

I have been paying all my bills online since last year, and it has proven to be very convenient for me. So in this matter, the postage increase does not affect my bill paying. For a long time, I have balked at the idea of doing online banking. But since I've switched to it, I have never been late paying my bills and I don't have to worry about postage. It's definitely make that time of the month, billpaying that is, easier.

I'll still be mailing my monthly bills. I wanted to get some sent off early but with Mother's Day weekend, that didn't happen. I still have a few Forever Stamps too. I wonder if the post office still has some for sale?

I bought a ton of the Forever stamps so no matter what the price of postage is, I can use them without having to add extra one or two cent stamps to them. The post office is saying that they are losing money but that is hardly the case. More and more people are buying things online and that means more packages - Priority mail is a complete joke because more often than not it gets shipped via a ground carrier. If you want to know where all the postal profits are going, look at the retirement packages that they are paying out.

I will still use the post office like normal. When gas goes up I suppose everything has to go up too and the post office is no different. I bought stamps last week before I knew about the increase but I had bought those forever stamps where they are still okay to use without extra postage.

Hi carolbee, I do both - I pay online and by snail mail. and the reason for it is, if I'm getting to close to the due date I will pay online. If my due date is a little more then a week away, i will mail them. Everything is going up but the pay...lol It makes it hard to keep up! Have a good day!

Some banks charge to pay your bills online a small monthly fee. But no I don't pay any monthly bills online. Nor do I send them in if they are close enough to drive to pay them. I usually just run in and pay them while I am in town. I had heard that the postage was raising some but I didn't know about how much it raised by. Before we know it by 2010 atleast it will be 50¢ to mail something out.

I pay all my bills online. It's very safe, and very convenient instead of sitting there writing out all those cheques. It's 52 cents here to mail a letter inside of Canada, so, I think it's more economical to do it online.

I didn't realize there was an increase in the price of postage stamps...but one cent really doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Especially compared to gas prices! Gas prices are horrible! I pay my bills online. I have never had a problem with it...so far it's been easy and trustworthy. I think you should try it!

Yes they are at it again with the increases. I have some 41 cents stamps and had to buy a bunch of penny stamps because I still mail out certain bills. I tried to buy some "Forever Stamps" before the increase but they claim to have been out of them - yea right! I am sure they have them now on sale ofor42 cents, they think people are stupid.

I have been paying my bills online for a long time. I have never had any problems and am quite comfortable with paying them that way. I do keep postage stamps in the house so that when I want to mail a card to a friend I have them handy. And as one of the other responses mentioned it is not surprising the increase in the price of the stamp because of the rise in the price of gasoline. So I will do as I always have done for quite some time and pay my bills online.

I pay all my bills online thru my bank bill-pay feature. I haven't bought/used stamps in months.

We started paying our bills online before the 41 cent increase, so this one doesn't bother me much in terms of reqular mail. However, I have an online business, and I mail a lot of packages for that. I haven't been to the post office since the postage change (been a slow week for sales), but I've got some packages to mail later in the week. I really haven't been able to take the time to comprehend all of the changes on mailing packages... they just changed it last year, and I was finally learning that system! :)

I bought a bunch of forever stamps. 100 of them. Some bills I pay online because it worked out better. Some bills I pay in person because that works out better. Some I pay by mail because that works out better. It just depends. 2 bills never worked out electronically, but I can pay in person. 2 bills by the time I get the money, no time for online, but I can send by mail. Sometimes I have to use overnight delivery which costs a lot more than just one cent more.