lajackson wrote:My teenage son has a checking account that does not allow the writing of checks. All payments are by electronic bill pay or cash withdrawal from an ATM machine.
Because our clerks have made it clear that they feel it is a real hassle, my son has three options.
1. Hassle them with bill pay....
lajackson wrote:Remember, we were not sending the check to the bishop's address
Again forgive me in advance for being dense, but when you "hassled" the clerks in the past under option 1, where were you instructing the Bill Pay to be mailed?
lajackson wrote:With the new plan, he requests a check from the bank on Thursday or Friday, which takes four to five days to arrive, and his tithing is paid on Sunday, a week later. That extra week in getting the tithing paid is the delay to which I was referring.
Again, this postal delivery delay is the same regardless of where you instruct the Bill Pay to be mailed. So under you option 1 above, tithing was still not being paid that Sunday, but the following Sunday, it's just that the delay wasn't obvious to your son because the bishop (or whomever your son instructed the Bill Pay to mail it to) was holding the check until Sunday instead of your son.
If I understand correctly, when the Bill Pay was mailing the check to the bishop (or whomever), the clerks felt "hassled" because they had to then process a donation without a donation slip. When the Bill Pay mails the check to your son instead, he feels hassled to have to hold on to the check a few extra days because the whole Bill Pay process is now blatantly obvious instead of being hidden.