Royal Mail Bills Online - any good

Cumbrian_Male

I barely trust Royal Mail to deliver letters let alone pay my bills.

If I was to pay bills other than DD then I would use our local sub-post office so the local service is not lost.

Marisan

I'm astonished that Royal Mail want to take business away from local sub Post Offices,which are struggling to survive anyway.

With friends like this..................

Thenotsowyzewun

Nim,take a look at the Mail Preference Service (http://www.mpsonline.org.uk) if you want to block junk mail.

I also think it's stupid from a security point of view, although receiving all my postal mail as e-mailed PDF's would be great (as long as they had the option to use strong encryption, of course). Course, some things would have to be marked not to be delivered by e-mail...

As for MSE's search engine, I don't think much of it either (mostly because 3 letter or less searches like 32" LCD TV don't work!), try going to google and typing in your search followed by site:forums.moneysavingexpert.com (this will search just MSE!).

buglawton

Marisan wrote:

I'm astonished that Royal Mail want to take business away from local sub Post Offices,which are struggling to survive anyway.

With friends like this..................

I have asked if undelivered packages can be left at our local sub Post Office a few hundred meters away rather than me having to travel 6 miles by car to get them (after waiting 24 hours as instructed). But this service does not exist and Royal Mail have no intention of cooperating with the sub post office network to provide it. Instead I have to call the sorting office (average number of calls to get through - 4) and instruct them to re-deliver to the sub post office (average total delay to package - 72 hours).

Gettting off-topic but you can see that Royal Mail seems to be a different organization that does not wish to cooperate with Post Offices over no-brainer service options.

nim_2

Thenotsowyzewun wrote:

Nim,take a look at the Mail Preference Service (http://www.mpsonline.org.uk) if you want to block junk mail.

I was spammed by email from the post office regarding bills online.

I'm not that worried by postal stuff - I can ignore it, recycle it, or simply put it all back in their reply paid envelopes and waste their time.

Email spam, however, deserves a death penalty for the first offence, especially if I have specifically ensured I opt out. If I feel in the appropriate mood I will follow up EU spam under the data protection legislation.

Cumbrian_Male

nim wrote:

Email spam, however, deserves a death penalty for the first offence, especially if I have specifically ensured I opt out. If I feel in the appropriate mood I will follow up EU spam under the data protection legislation.

In that case you need The Information Commissioner's Office

For Privacy and Electronic Communications

nim_2

[Expanding on what I wrote earlier]

As far as I can see this is just an aggregation system similar to Egg Money Manager, except it has a bill paying focus rather than an bank/credit account focus.

To me the great risk appears to be that you are pulling a lot of personal data and account data into one place.

Hence I think that you may find that the receipient organisations (the ones whose bills you are putting on this system) may have something to say about it - especially if you are using it for credit card payments and similar.

I have found, in a thread about Egg Money Manager, this very useful post about companies that will not accept any fraud liability if you use an aggregation service - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=1594610&postcount=6

For that reason I would suggest you steer very very well clear of this.

jockettuk

i get my gas and electricity bills online so no paperwork coming through the door.. i recently had to prove my existance as living were i am and thought i would just out of curiosity print off and take my gas bill along.. guess what they wouldnt accept this as proof as it was from the internet, so my question is this if you get all your utility bills online what can you use to prove you live were you say you live..