Consumers Get Insult to Injury in a Worsening Economy

I was paying my T-mobile bill today when I noticed that if I didn’t sign up for electronic billing and kept the hard copies coming in the mail I am now going to be charged $1.50 per month for the luxury of getting a bill sent to me.

As if it wasn’t bad enough, now you have companies trying to stick it to you even for the bills they need to send to you. I’m not a fan of receiving the electronic bills because I receive so many e-mails and a lot of them are junk and might miss the bill or delete it by accident. I’m old school on my billing and want it in hard copy so I can organize it in a file with dates and make sure they get paid.

This is akin to the airline practice of hitting you up extra for a bag. It started out with no more meals. OK we said, we had enough of that cardboard food anyway but it was nice to get it offered or included in the outrageous price for flying. Now they are charging you not just for an additional bag, but every bag you check; even if it is one. We need to rebel Americans and show them we’re not going to take it. Forget sending a tea bag to your public representatives, start sending tea bags to these company CEOs who allow such caustic policies to be deployed that are not consumer friendly.

If we as consumers don’t work together to show them what is unacceptable they will continue to push us down and before you know it they be billing us for our carry on bag and to bring your own meal on the flight and there will be no stop to their adverse creative ideas to bilk you.

Sincerely,

James Burns, Esq.