The nation’s largest banks are testing how much their customers are willing to pay for checking-account services that used to be free. Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase, the two biggest banks as measured by assets, have begun trying new fees in pilot tests from Hayward, Wis., to Newnan, Ga. They include an...
Do mailbox break-ins occur at your local post office? You might never know. The crimes are largely unreported. It takes a U.S. Freedom of Information Act request to learn what is going on. Here’s how to do it.
Chafing under new financial regulations, some of the nation’s biggest banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America, are mulling limits on the size of debit-card purchases. Such a move would cap the amount of money–banks are weighing between $50 and $100–consumers could shell out on individual transactions using their debit card. The...
When signing up for any cable, satellite, or phone service make sure you ask ALL the critical questions. As Richard Selinga of the Unionville section of Farmington discovered, you have to look beyond the advertised price to make sure that what you are buying is what you really expect. And we are talking about...
