Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: danj1@ihlpz.att.com (Daniel Jacobson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Environmentally Responsible Telco Message-ID: Date: 18 Feb 91 04:57:16 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@att.com Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 21 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 128, Message 9 of 9 Donald E. Kimberlin writes about exciting new developments on the reusable telephone company billing envelopes front. Here in Illinois Bell territory I can charge it with my major credit card. On my monthly call I pester my Ill Bell representative about somehow making this automatic. However, I have it rigged up with Northern Ilinois Gas to "front" them $40 each month out of my bank account -- definitely the least maintenance style of billing I've come across ... they even pay 5% interest on the surplus $$. Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708-979-6364 [Moderator's Note: You should familiarize yourself with 'BILL'. This is an automatic pay-by-phone service all the utilities in northern Illinois use as well as many merchants and credit card services. You can pay many of your bills by phone each month with a single phone call to 'BILL' as I do. They are in Arlington Heights, IL, and tied in with all the banks to do automatic debits, etc. PAT]