General Discussion

That was a change they made a couple years ago as I used to just login and do 1-time payments.

I, believe it or not, have AT&T as a legacy "long distance" provider for my Verizon landline (after all the transitions from Bell of PA and then to Bell Atlantic and then to Verizon).

I don't want ANY "auto pay" stuff. If the provider lets me pay online without an extra fee or stipulations like AT&T, I have been doing that. Otherwise - send me the bill in the mail.

So like I did yesterday, I got a 3-month AT&T paper bill in the mail (the monthlies were too much for them so they bill every 3 months since the monthly amount is pretty small being only "long distance" ) and will mail it the next time I am out running errands.

I remember reading an article a bunch of years ago about a woman who lived alone and whose home was eventually foreclosed on. And when the sheriff went to clear the house, he found the woman dead inside (and she had been deceased for something like 2 years according to a coroner). She had done auto-pay for all her bills including the mortgage and when those auto-pays drained her accounts, the notices started, and eventually lead to the foreclosure, and no one knew she had passed away until her accounts were overdrawn, and her home was being seized.