No Mistaking His Voice!
I have learned a painful lesson over the last six weeks. Don’t ever change financial institutions if you can avoid it! In my case, I couldn’t do anything other than go with this change. After thirty-five years, our bank was bought out by a credit union. Even if I had gone with another local bank, I would have still faced the challenge of sharing our new routing number with each of the billing entities that we set up on autopay and direct deposit! Image credit: Jason Rosewell unsplash.com These autopay arrangements include all our utilities, those who manage our retirement income (government, pension, and 401-K), our life insurance companies, and other assorted entities that help to manage our accounts. We thought we would avoid any late payment slip-ups when we set this all up! We said to ourselves, “We’ll never need to worry again!” Our relief was short-lived these days, as we are painstakingly trying to communicate with so many businesses! I have also discovered that many instituti...