The Death of Post BillPay
I got an e-mail from Australia Post’s PostBillPay service saying that the service is being discontinued. The annoying things I always found about it were that it was limited to a short list of billers, and secondly you couldn’t use your credit card to pay your bills. I guess that means I’ll be getting 2 more snail-mail bills now. Basically I hate having to take the time to pay bills and receiving, storing and recycling the paperwork. The problem with automatic debit is that I’d rather approve payment in advance than have it paid automatically and then have to contest it.
Tags: annoying_things, australia_post, automatic_debit, credit_card, paperwork, postbillpay, recycling, snail_mail
July 2nd, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Don’t most things that you used to use PostBillPay for also support BPay? It’s what we used for most things while they were getting off the ground. We’ve switched as many things as we can over to automatic debit now, and the only thing that’s needed contesting was an ‘overquota’ charge from Westnet when they mucked up a plan transition. (fixed as soon as we pointed it out).
July 10th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
I think the thing is that PostBillPay meant not getting a paper copy of the bill, which is one of the things that annoy me most about bills.
July 10th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Ah, ok. I don’t think I ever took advantage of that capability.