I have (sort of) paid my bills this afternoon. My Social Security check is supposed to be posted on the fourth Wednesday of the month. However, my credit union always makes the funds available on that Monday before the fourth Wednesday. But if I posted all my payments to go out on Monday, chances are somehting would get screwed up and I would be in trouble. So, I have put all of the bill payments to go out on Tuesday, so if something does go wrong I can still stop them from processing.