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BE SURE YOUR PAYMENTS ARE NOT DELAYED.
The Town of Mansfield has contracted with Century Bank to process our electric payments. If you write a check to pay your bill, this means you should now mail payments with remit coupons to P.O. Box 55858, Boston, MA 02205-5858. However, if you make payments online through your bank, you should have those checks sent to 125 High St., Unit 2, Mansfield, MA 02048, or to Six Park Row, Mansfield, MA 02048.
Here’s why there are two payment addresses:
When you make a payment through your bank online, the bank sends a check without a copy of the bill from MMED that identifies the payer. As a result, Century Bank’s payment processing center does not know where to apply these types of payments. When this occurs, Century Bank sends the unidentified payments back to us via US mail. We then must print out bills to identify the payers and send them back to Century Bank for processing. Payments may not be applied to your account for up to 10 days, including the time it takes your bank to cut and mail the check. Having your bank send payments directly to us reduces this delay.
MMED also offers several convenient check-free ways to pay your electric bills. See page 2 for options that include credit cards, direct debit, and online payments from our website.
ELECTRIC RATES HERE REMAIN COMPETITIVE
Electric rates in Mansfield remain very competitive with other utilities across the state. In June, MMED was the eleventh lowest of 41 Massachusetts electric utilities for the cost of power to a typical residential homeowner using 750 kilowatt-hours (kWh). That cost in June was $94.71, or 12.6
cents per kWh.
For the third quarter of 2009 (July through September) a Mansfield bill for the same amount of power dropped to $88.56, or 11.8 cents per kWh. This is the result of a continuing decline in the Generation Charge portion of your bill, which estimates MMED’s costs for the purchase and transmission of energy to your home. Since January 2008, that charge has ranged from a high of 13.23 cents per kWh in the third quarter of 2008 to 9.13 cents in the third quarter of 2009.
Power supply costs, which are subject to market fluctuations, are often outside our control. However, as a municipal utility, MMED can quickly pass on power supply cost savings to our customers
to keep bills as low and stable as possible..
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