ndallen@contact.uucp (Nigel Allen) (02/15/91)
In article <1991Feb8.084148.1957@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> farkas@ eecg.toronto.edu (Keith I. Farkas) writes: >Finally, another example of waste: how many of us use the envelope provided >by VISA, MASTERCARD, or BELL when paying our bills? -- most people I know pay >their bills through a banking machine. The telephone company in Nova Scotia, Maritime Tel & Tel, stops enclosing remittance envelopes with your bill if you haven't used them for the past six months. (That is, its systems can distinguish between a payment received by mail and one made by other means, and if all your payments have been through a bank or over the counter, the company stops sending you remittance envelopes.) Bell Canada used to have people in its Phonecentres and Teleboutiques who would accept your phone bill payment and give you a receipt, but those people are gone now, replaced by payment drop boxes. Nigel Allen ndallen@contact.uucp 52 Manchester Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6G 1V3 voice (416) 535-8916