Fun with the Houston Chronicle Billing Department
As I was totaling up my end-of-month bills this afternoon, I couldn't help but notice that our esteemed city newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, had taken the liberty of billing me three separate times in the past thirty days. Now, I'm not proud to admit that I subscribe to the Chronicle on most days, but in my defense, I only get the paper on Sundays. For a "Sunday Only" subscription, I pay the sum of $14 a month -- in theory. Assuming there are four Sundays in a month, that comes to $3.50 a paper. That's not really all that great of a deal for something I can usually work through in the space of ten minutes on the average Sunday. Not to mention, the newspaper lady routinely forgets to deliver the paper about once a month. As with most of my bills, I have it on a credit card with autopay. I noticed today that the Chron had billed me $14 on October 31st, $19 on November 3rd, and another $14 on November 24th. This seemed to boost my average bill to $11