LAUREL HILL — City water customers have more time to pay their water bills than expected.
Late fees usually accrue by the 10th of month, “but we’re going to push it back to the 17th,” Laurel Hill Mayor Robby Adams said.
The allowance follows the U.S. Postal Service's notification that bills got lost during sorting.
The city mails water bills from the Laurel Hill Post Office, which, like other area post offices, sends its mail to the Pensacola postal sorting facility.
Adams said the postal service told city officials that some bills made it through the sorting process to be delivered to customers, but the majority didn’t.
“They didn’t say what happened,” Adams said. “They just said, ‘They’re over there.’”
City Clerk Nita Miller said postal officials notified her Friday morning that the bills had been found and would be sent out in the day’s deliveries, but the city would still grant the seven-day deadline extension.
The postal service also lost some of Baker residents’ water bills, Adams said.
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