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The post office won't sell you Delivery Confirmation for your letter, but they will sell it to you for a small package.
You can put your payment and paperwork into a small, 00 size, padded envelope, insert a couple of styro peanuts, and slap a DC label on it. The postage for such a thing can be as low as 62¢ if you print your own DC label, using USPS Shipping Assistant, as 1st Class Delivery Confirmation is only13¢ that way. This way you can track your payments and when they reach their destination. Also, just as sellers like to have "proof of delivery", you can also get a leg up on "your payment didn't get here" excuses from sellers, or find out when they are telling the truth.
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Probably a great idea for all those whose payments get "lost in the mail".
In my years of selling on eBay I've mailed out over 5,000 standard envelopes containing purchases. I have never yet had one go missing.
In the same time period I've had close to 100 instances where "the payment must have been lost in the mail". Thank heavens this is just a one-way problem!
If you are mailing your payment – especially to me – please take the suggestion that Toy Ranch has so generously offered.
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You can put your payment and paperwork into a small, 00 size, padded envelope, insert a couple of styro peanuts, and slap a DC label on it. The postage for such a thing can be as low as 62¢ if you print your own DC label, using USPS Shipping Assistant, as 1st Class Delivery Confirmation is only13¢ that way.
The buyers I get who email with the "Where's my stuff?" questions for the most part tend to be the high maintenance type, and I doubt they'd be willing to spend an extra 50¢ (25¢ postage/DC + 25¢ bubble mailer) plus go to the trouble of figuring out how to use USPS Shipping Assistant (not to mention a trip to Staples to buy the mailer) just to be able to see when I received their check.
On the other hand, if they could figure a way to make me pay, I'm sure they'd be all for it.
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I used to use DC when making a particular credit card payment, because I suspected they weren't posting my payment in a timely manner after it was received. Suddenly my payments were getting posted faster!
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I used to use DC when making a particular credit card payment, because I suspected they weren't posting my payment in a timely manner after it was received. Suddenly my payments were getting posted faster!
Now there's a great idea! I have one company that always posts my payment on the 12th of the month. Their cutoff date is the 11th. It doesn't matter when I mail the payment.....somehow it never gets posted until the 12th.
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Jayne...
Do they charge you a late fee?
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Originally Posted by toke
Jayne...
Do they charge you a late fee?
No late fee. That's the weird thing. They just keep harassing the hell outa me for something that's already paid. Each month I get a past due notice around the 25th. Plus 2 or three messages from their billing dept on my voice mail. When I call them, they say it's already paid. I asked why I keep getting the late notices and phone calls, and they tell me they print the late notices and call lists on the 11th, but they don't mail them until the 22nd. WTH???
AND...they turn all the past due accounts over to collections on the 11th. Now, this makes no sense to me at all, because the bill I'm paying is for service provided from the 1st thru the 31st. On the 11th, they haven't even completely delivered the service from the invoice they've now turned over to collections. The collections dept puts it on my credit history, which REALLY pisses me off.
Once I figured out what they were doing, I started paying it electronically. That way it posts the same day I pay it. BUT I have to remember to sign on to their website and make a one-time payment each month. It's a pain in the butt. I think the whole point is to get their customers onto some type of automatic draft. I'm not even doing that.
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Now there's a great idea! I have one company that always posts my payment on the 12th of the month. Their cutoff date is the 11th. It doesn't matter when I mail the payment.....somehow it never gets posted until the 12th.
There was a company many years ago, Providian (sic) Credit Card, that by policy always posted payments late, regadless when they got them, so they can charge a $24 late fee.
The feds fined them millions of dollars and forced them to remove any negative mark on their cardholders credit report.
I have used DC with Endicia (free) and saved my butt a few times when I was able to prove when a payment was mailed.