I find it both fascinating and bizarre how many presumably grown-up people apparently have no conception of how to properly pay bills, AND apparently have no conception of how the mail works.
To hear you people talk, we’re living in a corrupt Third Word hellhole, where sending mail is roughly the literary and/or financial equivalent of Russian roulette. It’s like you people have never even heard of a modern, Western postal service. Sure, the postal service occasionally makes mistakes, but the percentage of mistakes is extremely low.
All you have to do is use the handy envelope that the company in question provides, spend 30 seconds writing a check, and pop it in the mail. If you mail it a week before the due date (although that assumes you can read a calendar, which based on some of these posts may be an unreasonable assumption) you’ll be fine 99.9% of the time. If you’re paranoid, mail it 10 days before the due date, and you’ll be fine 99.9999% of the time.
A lot of you people have complaints that boil down to “They charge for paying online or by phone.” Then you throw a hissy fit, apparently thinking that paying by mail is somehow unacceptable.
GROW UP, YOU IDIOTS!!!
Learn how to pay your bills PROPERLY, and everybody around you will thank you!