Should I panic yet? Trustee payment has not been received

[tigergem]

Unfortunately, automatic bill pay is not an option for me. My trustee gave out a handout at the 341, which said only certified bank checks or money orders allowed, no electronic payments, personal or business checks.

Ditto, here. That's a shame, too, because if an online bill payment gets lost, my bank handles it all, reissues the payment for me without delay and at no cost to me, and I never have to pay postage in the first place. I was also wishing the Trustee's office would enroll in pay.gov so it could be paid online, but no such luck.

[kornellred]

Screw-ups by the USPS are rare, but they do happen. If you are sending a money order or certified banking instrument as payment to the Memphis PO Box (as thousands of debtors actually do) and it does not get there, it it the fault of the USPS, not yours. Your case will not be dismissed if you prove to the trustee that you sent the payment before the due date.

[tigergem]

I send mine by regular mail with a "certificate of mailing". Not the same as, and cheaper than certified mail. $1.15, I think? It just shows that you mailed it, and the address you mailed it to. At some post offices, the clerk insists on filling out the certificate, and others, they let you do it, but they always make sure that the address on the certificate is identical to what the envelope says. Then I check the Trustee's web site to make sure it was received. If not, at least I have my receipt for purchase of the money order and my receipt for actually having mailed it.