# Paying my bills through my bank.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-my-bills-through-my-bank/549610>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 8, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-my-bills-through-my-bank/549610 "2010-08-08T17:46:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![forgottenstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/46a35a/32.png) [@forgottenstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/forgottenstar)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-my-bills-through-my-bank/549610/21 "2010-08-11T19:37:10Z")

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> [@Mama\_Zappa](#):
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> > [@forgottenstar](#):
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> > What bank is this??? And why have I never heard of this before??:dubious:
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> > I swear the east coast sucks when it comes to new(ish) technology.
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> It’s not that unusual - my credit union does all of this and I too live on the east coast. The only capability that mangeorge has mentioned is the ability to have the bank send the bills directly to the credit union for review / approval.
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> There are 3rd party services online that work with some utilities etc. and want to be a central bill-paying tool, but I’ve found they work with only a handful of our bills. I think our gas and electric were the only ones when I looked around a few years back.
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> The rest of our bills either come in the mail, or I get an email notification (from the phone company, insurance company, or whatever) to go to their site and look at it.

All my bills come to the mail with the exception of my car insurance which is deducted automatically from my account-which I hate, but gives me a small discount.

I dont even know of any credit unions around here… (NYC)- just the local and chain banks. Both of which I hate and do not trust.

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