(February 21, 2020 at 8:20 pm)Fireball Wrote:(February 21, 2020 at 8:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Maybe your medical costs could be lowered if they sent just the bill and not the notice PLUS the bill. 'Here's a piece of mail telling you that you're going to get a piece of mail' seems kind of wasteful.
Boru
Indeed. My medical insurance provider encouraged me to sign up for autopay (did that) and electronic notification (did that, too). I get an email notification telling me to go pa my bill every month, even thought it's an autopay...and i get a paper bill as well, both of which (when I log in to my account or open my mail) clearly tell me that I am enrolled in autopay!
Even in businesses this is a thing. The office where I work part time gets a lot of bills via email. I can pay for a variety of things, often using a link embedded on the email, online and no paper changes hands. Many are set on autopay but not the ones that have a lot of variation (our choice so we can better monitor fluctuations).
Insurance - health, auto, general liability, etc. comes via email, snail mail, smoke signals, etched on marble tablets, texts, morse code....often all of the above.
Sheesh.
I'm your huckleberry.
