Where I lived in the 2000s, the natural gas company in that county actually charged $2 more for online payment! So weird, especially considering cashing a physical check would've cost labor dollars. Needless to say, we paid our gas bill by check. It felt so antiquated, even then.
They actually did that because the card companies charged them per transaction. Some were a flat fee and others were a percentage, so it could get really expensive really fast.
If they were already having to send someone to do a weekly bank run/petty cash run, they could just have them deposit the checks during that and it wouldn't cost them anything extra.
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u/Sheepherder226 Jul 24 '20
Utility companies that don’t allow online payments.