Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!att!bu.edu!telecom-request From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: All Monthly Bills --> One Bill Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 03:34:23 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: I.E.C.C. Lines: 33 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 145, Message 7 of 7 In article is written: > The National Westminster Bank here in the UK has a similar service. > It's called Actionline. Nat West has two subsidiaries in the U.S.: NatWest USA and NatWest New Jersey. (It takes a special kind of person to live in New Jersey.) I have an account at NatWest NJ which also has telephone payments, which I use for all regular payments related to my beach cottage in New Jersey. It's a great deal, you can pay anyone you want for 20 cents/payment, far less than the 29 cents it would otherwise cost for a stamp, and payments to a NatWest credit card account are free. You tell them who your payees are, what account number should go with the payment, and a three digit number you use when making the payment. To pay someone, you call up, enter a long account number unrelated to your bank account number, and then enter payee codes, amounts, and optionally the date to pay. There are also the usual other services such as balance inquiry, recent cleared checks inquiry, and transfers from one account to another. You can have multiple checking and savings accounts tied to the same phone payment account; it's quite flexible. This service actually dates from long before NatWest bought the bank, but I'm glad that NatWest had the sense to keep it. If I didn't live in Massachusetts eleven months of the year, I'd use it for all my bills. There used to be a few banks here in Massachusetts that offered pay by phone, but it never caught on here for some reason. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl