If you own a house in Baltimore then in theory you receive numerous bills and notices via snail mail from the city over the course of a year. Sometimes the bills are lost in mail (probably never mailed out in the first place) and you eventually find out you have all sorts of lovely fines tacked on to the original high bill that you never received. It is just another ugly aspect of city living that pile up over time and drive people away from the city.
Credit card companies, phone companies, and energy companies all give us the option of receiving bills online only. It saves the companies money because they do not have to pay postage or printing costs and it is environmentally friendly. Imagine if the city allowed us to opt out of receiving our water bills, tax bills, rental registration bills, and other notices via snail mail. There would be no more “lost in the mail” excuses and the city would save on postage and printing costs. I definitely would choose to receive my water bills electronically.
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Keith- Yes you can pay online, I knew that. I am suggesting that the city gives us the option to no longer receive paper bills and to only receive the bills online. This will get rid of the lost in the mail excuses and save money on postage. Just having an online payment option does not address these two issues.
Before you go bashing the City employeesin with your nasty and stereotypical manner, check your facts. You can pay your bills on line at http://cityservices.baltimorecity.gov/paysys/
Although this blog does annoy me at times with Adam’s self-righteousness and that beyond annoying picture (Seriously, change that. It makes you look like a grinning jackass with nothing to say.), Aristotle, you miss some key words such as “option” and “choose.”
You also showcase your lack of reading comprehension with vague racism.
Way to go.
People in the ghetto don’t have computers let alone internet access Mr. Brainiac.