Water bills costing North Bay $130,000 in postage

The city currently spends nearly $130,000 annually on postage within its water and sewer department because only about a third of its 16,000 users have signed up for paperless billing.
City politicians, however, hope to reduce that cost by encouraging more users to sign up. Exactly how to go about doing that was a key topic of discussion during a water and sewer operating budget meeting this week.
Some council members suggested the city make the move to transition all water users to paperless e-