[WiseSpender]

I noticed on my City Of Leesburg Natural Gas bill that "utility payments made with a credit/debit card will incur a transaction fee of $3.50. ACH/Echeck payments will incur a $1.00 transaction fee."

How can I avoid these "add-on fees"? I have never had any business charge me extra for using automatic payment features (whether it was automatically billed on my credit card or taken out of my bank account)!

Even paying the bill with a personal check and sent by USPS mail each month (which would seem to avoid City Of Leesburg's nasty transaction fees) would cost 73 cents for the postage stamp!

Anybody know how to handle this at the least cost? Please chime in!