So the gas bill for last month is $1.67. Really! We pay in equal payments so there’s always a strange amount left at the end of the year.
My bank charges me $1.00 to pay the bill online so I figure – I’ll pay it with the “normal” payment next month. So this month’s normal payment comes is with a note saying how important it is to pay the bill on time to avoid disruption in service, bad credit, blah blah blah – late payment fee: $0.20 (so I’m still ahead of the game).
You would think that the guys who wrote the software would have something like… Gee… let me spend some time on this one… If the bill is less than a certain amount… like oh.. $2.00 just add it to the next month’s bill. Don’t send out a bill for anything under $2.00 because postage, printing, environmental impact… whatever are greater than the $2.00 we are owed.
On the other hand, they did make an extra $0.20….sheesh!
