quick, honey, call the creditors. I TOLD them 'the check was in the mail'.... lol...

Hi, Amused, I can second your comment on slow Apex mail. I'm in Cary and send a check out every 2 weeks and it takes between 3 and 7 days to get there.

Wonder if this person was just lazy/overworked or if they were collecting mail for some unknown, weird personal satisfaction?

Hey debt collector, your check's in the mail... on the back porch... in Apex.

Animal Lover: Yes, the postal service as a whole is quite good. My step daughter and sister in law both worked for the USPS and I know the work they do. The main reason I pay bills online is that I want to make sure the payments are posted before the due date. Too often mail can very easily get misplaced and such and though it may eventually get delivered, if it is late to pay a bill, they will slap you with late charges in a New York second. The credit card companies make over 1/3 of their profit with fees, that is why they make them so high and will do it if the payment is even one minute after the posted time. We had a car repossessed a few years ago and the whole time the company had two separate payments from us in their building. It just had not been posted. Took us several hundred dollars to undo that mess and protect our credit. That was the last time I made a payment via check and snail mail, and I pay a few days ahead of time.

APO75 - lol - maybe I can get my junk mail routed to my mailman's back porch :)

I just took the test for a rural carrier associate for the postal system. This is a sad story. One of the first things we were told is this is a hard job that requires long days and no overtime pay!

I guess he said if I am not getting paid it will not get delivered!