The mail

I sent my bills via the mail last Saturday.

A check to MBNA hasn't been processed yet. Same thing for my student loans, which go to Great Lakes Financial in Wisconsin.

Does that mean that they were lost in the mail? But other bills I paid have already been received.

If I remember correctly those were two of the slower ones. I gave the bill paying job to my husband when he retired.

I think I am just overwrorying.

Not too long ago I had something similar happen to me -- I wrote a couple of checks at home and mailed them on the way to work, then wrote a couple more at work and dropped them in a different mailbox on the way out of town for the weekend. Same day, about an 8-hr difference in mailing times. The first bills cleared normally, but the second bunch were still outstanding weeks later; I even called the bursar (one was my school bill) to see if they'd mislaid the check somewhere. About three weeks after mailing they finally went through.

I looked into stopping payment on the "missing" checks, but my bank charges a fee that was almost as much as the check amount, so I decided it wasn't worth it, especially as the stop payment only lasts six months, and if someone tried to cash them after then, they'd go through (or so I was told). YMMV, of course.

On edit: Forgot to mention that one reason I came up with for some of my bills going missing was that I had put them in a mailbox that only got emptied once a day, at the end of the day; the little mail collection tubs may have been full and the bills slid off and somehow didn't get noticed for a couple weeks. Either that or the mail carriers just decided to ignore that mailbox for a few weeks! :-)

especially if I'm mailing something I want to get delivered quickly! Have heard some mailboxes don't get emptied as regularly as they should.

Well, at least I usually use the mailboxes outside the post office. I know they empty those every day -- I see them do it as I drive past often enough!

I put the bills in the same mailbox.

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