But here is what financial experts say you should consider before signing up for automatic payments: CHECK OUT the company before giving it access to your account information.
In particular, mobile banking emphasizes "transactional" features, such as bill payments, check deposits (where available, this feature allows a customer to take a picture of a check to be deposited), mobile person-to-person payments, and balancing checks.
And, finally, when you make online payments, check that the webpage address starts with https://, a communication protocol for secure data transfer, and confirm that the web page does not contain grammatical errors or strange words.
The Treasury Department is investigating the disappearance of about 1,800 returns and tax payment checks sent to a Mellon lockbox.
A federal investigation was started after taxpayers complained to the Internal Revenue Service that their payment checks had not cleared.
There is no rule, either, that rolls radio and TV fees into one, or proclaims in-car entertainment (with payment checks made easy at licensing time) free once you hop aboard.
Mr. Steiner joined Richard Wotova, the secretary general of the reconciliation fund, in flying to New York to personally deliver payment checks to five former forced laborers of Jewish faith who now live in the New York area.
"PayPal [also] failed to post payments properly, lost payment checks and mishandled billing disputes that consumers had with merchants or the company itself," Mr Cordray added.
The Bureau of Incompetent Asses had nearly 13 years to get the names and addresses of the 390,000 plaintiffs so that when it came time to actually mail out the payment checks they could be assured that they would be received.
There are a few out there that really want to make a good deal for you, but there are many more that don't care as long as your car payment checks don't bounce!
