Quote Originally Posted by Tradd View Post
I need to vent about a friend that is driving me crazy.

She's my age. Pays all her bills via check sent by mail. Absolutely refuses to even consider using online bill pay or direct debit automatic payments. Thinks everything is going to be hacked. She apparently mails all bills at the PO, but due to the ongoing PO issues, a lot of her bills have arrived late or not at all. Mortgage payment has even been late. I suggested she go to the local currency exchange (where you can pay bills in person, get license plate tags, etc.) and pay all her utility bills there. Cell phone bill could be paid at cell phone store. Mortgage payment would still have to go via mail if she didn't do an electronic payment. Nope, currency exchange charges fees and those are too expensive.

I finally told her that unless she was willing to make the changes to make sure her bills arrived on time, I didn't want to hear her bellyaching anymore. She went off in a huff and I've not heard from her since.
Oh well, she can get over it or die mad. She also needs to realize that if anyone gets ahold her of her checking account information, they can do quite a bit of damage with it, too. Checks aren't really that much safer than paying on-line.