Payment, of course, may be made by mail and is due upon receipt of your bill. A bill
message on the statement tells you when payment must be posted to your account to
avoid a 1.5% late payment charge.
If you lose your payment envelope, please mail your check or money order to the appropriate
address below (do not send cash):
For New York customers:
Orange & Rockland
P.O. Box 1005
Spring Valley, NY 10977
For New Jersey customers:
Rockland Electric Company
P.O. Box 427
Montvale, NJ 07645
For Pennsylvania customers:
Pike County Light & Power Co.
P.O. Box 1005
Spring Valley, NY 10977
Write It Right
To process customer payments, O&R, like most companies, uses optical scanners to "read"
the numeric amount in each check. That means the kind of pen you use and how you write
the numbers on the check make a difference.
To ensure accurate payments, use only black or blue ink. Silver, gold, red and gel ink
pens are attractive and fun to use, but they're not for check writing.
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| Clear, legible and written in black ink, this perfect check has the
decimal point where if should be, followed by two digits. |
The samples below illustrate why it's best
to write checks as clearly and legibly as possible. Thanks for writing it right. |
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Scanned as a $791.04 check, the correct payment amount was actually $79.04.
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Legibility is key. Written for $111.29, this check was "read" as $777.29. |
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Please write two digits, not a wavy line, after the decimal point. |
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Without a decimal point, the scanner could have read this check as $3974.00, instead
of $39.74. |
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Always use a decimal point followed by two digits, not fractions, as shown in
this example. |
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Asterisks always present "scanning" problems. |
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