This company is horrible! I get paid every 2 weeks, so I always have a paycheck at the beginning of the month, before my bill is due, and I mail my payment. Since I have moved in my house 2 years ago, my check THAT I MAIL ON TIME, is not cashed until 2-3 weeks after I mail it. I am then charged a late fee, because they say they did not receive it on time. FUNNY!, I never have any issues with my mortgage, gas, car note, electric, or insurance companies ever recieving my bill on time! But for some reason this company says that I am late! I mailed my bill on time on 1/12 ( I live about a mile away), and I come home on 1/20 and have a disconnect notice on my door, no letters, no calls, water was just shut off. Unbelievable! I call at 4:45 pm and am told that the company is closed and that I can call back at 8am. I try to explain that the bill was paid and if they had not received it yet, it was only a few days late, but that I mailed it well ahead of time for them to receive it. I also explain that I mailed my gas bill the same day that I mailed their bill and the gas bill had already been received and processed (cashed) and was sent to an address over 400 miles away. The operator told me again to call back at 8 am the next day. I was furious and had to go without water! The next day my husband called and they basically told him that the bill was not paid, and he tried to explain their history of not cashing the check until 2-3 weeks after it was mailed. My husband called me and asked me to handle it, because the woman that he was speaking to was the rudest and most unprofessional woman that he had ever spoken to, and he did not want to lose his temper. I called and spoke to the same lady, don't even remember her name, because she wouldn't shut up for 30 seconds so I could ask her. I tried to explain the situation to her. I gave her dates of the past few months that I wrote and mailed the check and the dates that they were cashed through the bank, consistently 2-3 weeks after being mailed. She did not want to hear anything that I had to say and kept cutting me off and stating that the bill was not paid. I told her about my gas bill already being cashed and she said that ""There is a problem with your post office"". I then told her that all of my other bills are mailed and cashed within 5 days and I am never given late fees. She again blamed me and said that I was mailed 4 disconnect notices. I informed her that I had not received any notice, and she replied ""That's funny"", and again informed me that there must be a problem with my post office, or I am not paying the bill. I was furious at this point and again tried to point out that this is the only utility company that I have an issue with receiving and cashing my bills on time and how could it possibly be the post office, if everything else is going through. I then informed her that the company does not offer any other way to pay, except mailing in a check, so I have no other option and am getting charged a late fee every month, because they say they haven't received the bill. By this point I'm furious and I ask her if I can change companies, because I am highly dissatisfied with the way that they do business and the way that I was being treated and the response she gave was, ""Not if you choose to live in Harris County"". UNBELIEVABLE! At that point, i called her a bitch and hung up. Childish of me, yes, but I really couldn't help it. In the end I had to go in and pay $104 that I had already mailed, and they for some reason had not received after 8 days, and I live 1 mile away, plus a $50 reactivation fees.
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