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Originally Posted by asianthree
That was what I thought when SSU went to their preferred payment through them, for a fee if you choose not to use their system. I continued with my bank, so far no fees have surfaced. We are preferred customers with our banks, was told no ACH fees apply with our accounts
Wonder if fee is for Leesburg to pull payment from your account, is ACH, but if your bank sends it then maybe no ACH fee? I don’t have Leesburg utilities so can’t verify
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Good point. I pay practically all my bills via the bank's bill payment system. But, I am also on some kind of waived fees account. So, while I think using the bill payment system is fee free, perhaps the ACH fees are just disappearing, due to account type. While using the ACH system is undoubtedly not 'free' to participating institutions, when divided by number of transactions it might be too tiny, tiny to apply to each one, so they lump it under 'maintenance fees'. Which, if you get the right kind of account, are waived.